Memory phrase for the character: 陰

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

阝	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.)
今	now
云	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 云. For "fog" itself the character: 霧 (MU, kiri) is used.

Vocabulary

陰謀論	いんぼうろん	conspiracy theory
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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