Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 陰
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陰 |
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Meaning |
shadow, negative = Yin(female) |
Pronunciation |
IN
kage |
Explanation |
Left: hill 阝, right: now 今 (lid  and corner フ) and: fog/mist 云 (cf. cloud 雲) |
Mnemonic
| The hill is now in the fog, thus in the shadow. |
Radicals
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阝
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hill | (The radical kozato shows a hill. 阝 and is always on the left side of a kanji. (Please note that rather similar radical oozato ⻏ is always on the right sight of the kanji and means village.)) |
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今
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now | |
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云
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fog | (云 has the meaning "fog" only in Chinese. This original meaning is still visible in: cloud 雲. In Japanese it has the meaning to say/speak. For "fog" itself the character: 霧 (MU, kiri) is used.) |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 木陰 |
こかげ |
Shade, tree shadow | | 日陰 |
ひかげ |
shadow | | 陰 |
かげ |
shade/shadow/other side | | 陰気 |
いんき |
gloom/melancholy |
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