yin

• IPA^(key): /jɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

From early romanizations of Chinese 陰／阴 (yīn), originally used in reference to shaded areas, as of a mountain or home.

yin (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with dark, cool, female, etc. elements of the natural world.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 187:

     "Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?"

• (complement): yang
• (unity): yin-yang

From ān. Cognate with yan, yen, ane and one.

yin

1. The number one, primarily used in Scotland and Ulster

• NYI

• vin, yinu, vinu

From Latin veniō. Compare Romanian veni, vin.

yin (third-person singular present indicative yini or yine, past participle vinitã or vinjitã or vinitã)

1. I come.

• yiniri/yinire, yinjiri/yinjire, viniri/vinire, vinjiri/vinjire
• vinit/vinjit, yinit/yinjit

From Latin vinum. Compare Romanian vin.

• yinu, vin

yin n (plural yinuri)

1. wine

• yinar

• ayinji/yinji
• ayitã/yitã

yin

1. instructive plural of yy

• nyi

Mandarin 陰／阴 (yīn)

• IPA^(key): /jin/
• Rhymes: -jin

yin m (usually uncountable, plural yins)

1. yin

• “yin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

yin

1. Nonstandard spelling of yīn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of yín.
3. Nonstandard spelling of yǐn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of yìn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

yin (subjective pronoun þou)

1. Alternative form of þin (“thy”)

yin (subjective þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thine”)

yin m (plural yines)

1. Alternative form of djinn

• “yin”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• rin, rin-ín (Èkìtì, Ìjẹ̀ṣà)

• IPA^(key): /jĩ́/

yín

1. your (second-person plural or honorific possessive pronoun)

yín

1. you (second-person plural object pronoun)