陰

陰 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓中人戈戈 (NLOII), four-corner 7823₁, composition ⿰阝侌)

• 𠽛, 𣼩, 廕(𫷮), 癊, 蔭(荫)

• 阴 (Simplified form of 陰)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1353, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41691
• Dae Jaweon: page 1855, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4138, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9670

Historical forms of the character 陰
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

According to Shuowen, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qrɯm) : semantic 阜 + phonetic 侌 ().

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r(u/i)m (“dark; shade; dusk; twilight”); compare Tibetan རུམ (rum, “darkness”), Jingpho rim (“to be dusk”) (Benedict, 1972; Bodman, 1980; STEDT).

Schuessler (2007) compares it instead to Burmese အုံ့ (um., “to become overcast”), Adi mugyum (“shade; shadow”), Lepcha ᰠᰨᰌᰤᰪᰮ (so-dyŭm, “shade”).

陰

1. cloudy; overcast; gloomy

   陰暗／阴暗  ―  yīn'àn  ―  dark; gloomy

   天陰了。／天阴了。  ―  Tiān yīn le.  ―  The sky is overcast.

   陰轉晴／阴转晴  ―  yīn zhuǎn qíng  ―  cloudy to fine

2. hidden; secret

   陽奉陰違／阳奉阴违  ―  yángfèngyīnwéi  ―  to overtly agree but covertly oppose; to comply in public but oppose in private

3. negative

   陰極／阴极  ―  yīnjí  ―  cathode

   陰離子／阴离子  ―  yīnlízǐ  ―  anion; negative ion

4. the Moon

   太陰／太阴  ―  tàiyīn  ―  moon

   陰曆／阴历  ―  yīnlì  ―  lunar calendar

5. shade; shadow

   樹陰／树阴  ―  shùyīn  ―  shade of a tree

   背陰／背阴  ―  bèiyīn  ―  to be in the shade

6. north of a mountain or south of a river

   山陰／山阴  ―  shānyīn  ―  northern side of a mountain

   江陰／江阴  ―  Jiāngyīn  ―  Jiangyin (a county situated on the south side of the Yangtze River)

7. back side

   碑陰／碑阴  ―  bēiyīn  ―  posterior of a stele

8. of the nether world; of ghosts

   陰間／阴间  ―  yīnjiān  ―  afterworld; netherworld

   陰陽相隔／阴阳相隔  ―  yīnyáng xiànggé  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

9. (philosophy) "female" principle; yin in yin-yang
10. in intaglio

    陰文／阴文  ―  yīnwén  ―  intagliated characters or designs

11. treacherous; deceitful; cheating

    陰險／阴险  ―  yīnxiǎn  ―  treacherous

    好哇，你敢跟我玩兒陰的！ [MSC, trad.]
    好哇，你敢跟我玩儿阴的！ [MSC, simp.]

    Hǎo wa, nǐ gǎn gēn wǒ wánr yīn de!

    Fine, you dare play dirty with me!

12. (dialectal) to deceive; to trick; to trap

    我今兒個讓人給陰了。 [dialectal Mandarin, trad.]
    我今儿个让人给阴了。 [dialectal Mandarin, simp.]

    Wǒ jīnrge ràng rén gěi yīn le.

    Today I have been tricked by someone.

13. (Chinese phonetics, of a syllable) open; not having a consonant coda
14. (Cantonese) bangs; fringe

    alt. forms: 𩬎

15. genitalia (of humans)

    陰道／阴道  ―  yīndào  ―  vagina

    外陰／外阴  ―  wàiyīn  ―  vulva

    • 大陰人嫪毐 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
      大阴人嫪毐 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

      From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

      dàyīnrén Lào'Ǎi

      Lao Ai of the large penis

16. a surname

• 陽／阳 (yáng, “yang”)

• → Proto-Tai: *rɤmᴮ (“shade”)
  • Thai: ร่ม (rôm, “shade, umbrella, parachute”)

• “陰”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04425

(Jōyō kanji)

1. shade
2. dark, gloomy
3. hidden, invisible
4. negative, yin (in contrast to yang)

• Go-on: おん (on)^{←おん (on, historical)←おむ (omu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: いん (in, Jōyō)^{←いん (in, historical)←いむ (imu, ancient)}
• Kun: かげ (kage, 陰, Jōyō)、かげる (kageru, 陰る, Jōyō)、くらい (kurai, 陰い)、ほと (hoto, 陰)

• 阴

• (Tokyo) かげ (Atamadaka – )^[1][2]
• IPA^(key):

陰(かげ) • (kage) 

1. shadow, shade

   木(き)の陰(かげ)

   ki no kage

   a shadow of a tree

2. hidden side

   陰(かげ)で動(うご)き回(まわ)る

   kage de ugoki mawaru

   maneuver in a hidden side

   陰(かげ)の支(し)配(はい)者(しゃ)

   kage no shihaisha

   a hidden ruler

• 陽(ひなた) (hinata, “sunny place, visible side”)

• 影(かげ) (kage)

From Middle Chinese 陰 (ʔˠiɪm).

• (Tokyo) いん (Atamadaka – )^[1][2]
• IPA^(key):

陰(いん) • (in) 

1. shade; shadow
2. shadow of the sun; (figuratively) time
3. hidden; invisible; secret
4. genitalia
5. negative; “female”; quiescent; minus
6. (philosophy) yin
7. north side of mountain; south side of water
8. the moon

陰(いん) • (in) 

1. (philosophy) yin
2. (literary) shady area; (陰に) in the shade; secretly; in private

/hoto₂/: * → → . As indicated in the Wamyōshō citation, /to₂/ may be related to 処 (/to₁/, “place, location”), but the phonological difference can not be explained. Perhaps related to Korean 보지 (boji, “vagina”).

• IPA^(key):

陰(ほと) • (hoto) 

1. female genitalia
   • 712, Kojiki

     因生此子、美蕃登此三字以音。見灸而病臥在。

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 712, Kojiki

     逆剥天斑馬剥而、所墮入時、天服織女見驚而、於梭衝陰上而死。訓陰上云富登。

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (by extension) male genitalia

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:陰茎

   • 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 2, pages 44-45:

     陰 釋名云、陰、今案玉茎玉門等通稱也 [...] 原書無其字按神代紀、「陰訓保止、保是含包之言、即所謂在陰翳之義、止、處也」 [...]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• べべ (bebe)
• へへ (hehe)
• まんこ (manko)
• みと (mito)
• おまんこ (omanko)
• おめこ (omeko)
• おそそ (ososo)
• つび (tsubi)

• Kurano, Kenji with Yūkichi Takeda (712) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Kojiki, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1958, →ISBN, page 224
• Minamoto, Shitagō with Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.

• 隂

From Middle Chinese 陰 (MC 'im).

Recorded as Middle Korean 隂/ᅙᅳᆷ (Yale: qum) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.

Recorded as Middle Korean 隂/음 (um) (Yale: um) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

陰

Wikisource

陰 (eumhun 그늘 음 (geuneul eum))

1. hanja form^? of 음 (“dark; shady”)

Related to Middle Chinese 闇 (MC 'omH, “dark; gloomy”).

陰 (eumhun 침묵할 암 (chimmukhal am))

1. (archaic) hanja form^? of 암 (“to be silent”)

• 噤, 금 (geum)
• 喑, 음 (eum)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

(Jōyō kanji)

• 陰(ほー)目(みー) (hōmī, “vagina”)

Cognate with Japanese 陰 (hoto).

陰(ほー) (hō) 

1. female genitalia

• Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo (国立国語研究所) (1963) 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawa-go Jiten) [Dictionary of the Okinawan Language] (in Japanese), Tokyo (東京): Okurashō Insatsu Kyoku (財務省印刷局)

陰: Hán Nôm readings: âm, ơm

1. chữ Hán form of âm (“yin”).

• âm lịch (陰曆, “lunar calendar”)
• hội âm (會陰, “perineum”)