yìnyīn

shade

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Shade  provided by a tree also sound

Components

Meaning component
Meaning component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagart'imHmə-q<r>[u]m-s shade

說文解字

《說文》:“蔭,艸陰地。从艸,陰聲。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica