陰

Related characters

 * ( of 陰)

Glyph origin
According to , a.

Etymology
From ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (STEDT).

compares it instead to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) cloudy; overcast; gloomy
 * 2) hidden; secret
 * 3) negative
 * 4) the Moon
 * 5) shade; shadow
 * 6) north of a mountain or south of a river
 * 7) back side
 * 8) of the nether world; of ghosts
 * 9)  "female" principle; yin in yin-yang
 * 10) in intaglio
 * 11) treacherous; deceitful; cheating
 * 12)  to deceive; to trick; to trap
 * 13)  open; not having a consonant coda
 * 14)  bangs; fringe
 * 15) genitalia (of humans)
 * 1) north of a mountain or south of a river
 * 2) back side
 * 3) of the nether world; of ghosts
 * 4)  "female" principle; yin in yin-yang
 * 5) in intaglio
 * 6) treacherous; deceitful; cheating
 * 7)  to deceive; to trick; to trap
 * 8)  open; not having a consonant coda
 * 9)  bangs; fringe
 * 10) genitalia (of humans)
 * 1) treacherous; deceitful; cheating
 * 2)  to deceive; to trick; to trap
 * 3)  open; not having a consonant coda
 * 4)  bangs; fringe
 * 5) genitalia (of humans)
 * 1)  open; not having a consonant coda
 * 2)  bangs; fringe
 * 3) genitalia (of humans)
 * 1) genitalia (of humans)
 * 1) genitalia (of humans)

Kanji

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

Noun

 * 1) shadow, shade
 * 2) hidden side
 * 1) hidden side

Etymology 2
From.

Affix

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

Noun

 * 1)  yin
 * 2)  shady area; (陰に) in the shade; secretly; in private

Etymology 3
/hoto2/: *[potə] → [ɸoto] → [hoto]. As indicated in the Wamyōshō citation, /to2/ may be related to, but the phonological difference can not be explained. Perhaps related to Korean.

Noun

 * 1) female genitalia
 * 2) * 712, Kojiki
 * 3) * 712, Kojiki
 * 4)  male genitalia
 * 1)  male genitalia
 * 1)  male genitalia

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
Related to 🇨🇬.

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) female genitalia