yīn

small hill

Evolution

陻 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Definitions

 

yīn

small hill, mound; bury; dam

() 

yīn

variant of [yīn]; to block

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[q]i[n]

'jin

yīn

dam up, block; mound


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6531st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+967B


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