陰 — shade, yin, negative

かげ陰 shade

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 11 strokes

U+9670 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1393 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1718 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

shade
yin
negative
sex organs
secret
shadow

word

かげ kage Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

陰(かげ) kage shadow お陰(かげ) okage thanks to

いん in On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

陰(いん) 謀(ぼう) inbou conspiracy 陰(いん) 陽(よう) inyou yin and yang

Appears in idioms

陰陽五行四字熟語

shade, sunshine, five, go

光陰矢のごとし諺

Time is like an arrow

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

阝 mound

いま今 now

云 cloud (archaic)

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#170 阜 mound