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yìn
HSK 6freq #2082

Meanings

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yìn
  1. 1.to print
  2. 2.to mark
  3. 3.to engrave
  4. 4.a seal
  5. 5.a print
  6. 6.a stamp
  7. 7.a mark
  8. 8.a trace
  9. 9.image
Yìn
  1. 1.surname Yin
  2. 2.abbr. for 印度[Yìn dù], India

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.stamp; seal
  2. 2.trace; mark; sign
  3. 3.to tally
  4. 4.to engrave
  5. 5.to print
  6. 6.A unit of measuring wok sizes.
  7. 7.a surname

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Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 爪 (“hand”) + 卩 (“kneeling person”) – a hand suppressing a kneeling person. According to 羅振玉 in his book 《增訂殷墟書契考釋》(1915), the character is an ideogram of a hand suppressing a kneeling person. The character 抑 (yì) (to suppress) was used to preserve the original meaning.

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