Yin characters are left and right structures, and radicals are "half". Yin, a standard first level word (commonly used) in modern Chinese, is pronounced y ī n. It was first seen in the inscriptions on gold, originally a pictophonetic character. From Fu (f ù) to Fu (y ī n), the left is a shape, and the right is a sound. Its original meaning is to the north of the mountain, to the south of the water, where the sun cannot shine. In modern times, it is simplified as "yin" and becomes a knowing word. Opposite to "Yang". "Yin" is also one of the Chinese surnames.
Yin, originally a pictophonetic character. On the left side of the inscriptions is Fu, which represents the mountain area and is the shape side; On the right side, there is a sound. In the seal script, "Fu" is written as "𨸏". In clerical script, "Fu" on the left is written as "half". Calligraphy of regular script. Shuowen: "Yin is also dark. The south of the water and the north of the mountain are also. The sound is from the cloud.". Clouds and hills both block the large objects of the sun, so the original meaning of Congcongyun is , which extends to the south of the water and the north of the mountain where the sun cannot shine. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the inscriptions on the bronze inscriptions "The yin and yang of the bronze inscriptions are used to represent the south of water and the north of mountains.". Today's sound means something in the sound. In the Scheme for Simplification of Chinese Characters, the word "moon" (opposite to "sun", meaning no sunshine) is used to replace the word "侌" (cloudy sky without sunshine) in the traditional regular script, and the word "yin" is created.
The original meaning of the word "Yin" is to the north of the mountain, the south of the water, and the place where the sun cannot shine. Zhang Shunhui's Shuowen Jiezi Yuezhu: "Yin's words are hidden by the mountains, which means that the sun cannot be seen, so its words are drawn from the water. There must be water between the two mountains, so the north of the mountain is the south of the water, and the south of the mountain is the north of the water. In ancient times, Yin's homonym was read," Gao Zong Zhunyin "in the Book of History, and" Zhunyin "in the Analects of Confucius, which means that the two words are interlinked. So Xu Junzhi used" Zhunyin "to teach Yin
