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Meaning of 殷

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Polyphone (多音字)
Total strokes: 10; Radical:
Ideographic:A midwife to helping a pregnant woman ; also provides the pronunciation
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1
Pinyin: yān
English Definition:dark red
Chinese Definition:
①黑红色:殷红。
Example Words:
殷红 yān hóng dark red
红殷殷 hóng yān yān dark red; crimson; also pr. [hong2 yin1 yin1]
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Pinyin: yīn
English Definition:flourishing; abundant; earnest; hospitable; surname Yin; dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after their move to Yinxu 殷墟 in modern Henan province
Chinese Definition:
①富裕,富足:殷实。殷阜。殷富。
②深厚,恳切:情意甚殷。殷切。殷勤。
③众,多:“士与女,殷其盈矣”。
④盛,大:殷祭。
⑤中国朝代名,商代的后期,由盘庚起称“殷”:殷墟。
⑥姓氏。

Example Words:
殷切 yīn qiè ardent; eager; earnest
殷勤 yīn qín politely; solicitously; eagerly attentive
殷墟 yīn Yinxu, ruins of Yinshang 殷商 city at Anyang 安阳 in Henan province, a World Heritage site
殷实 yīn shí thriving; well-off; substantial
殷殷 yīn yīn earnest; ardent (hope etc)
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3
Pinyin: yǐn
English Definition:roll of thunder
Chinese Definition:
①雷声:“殷其雷,在南山之阳”。
②震动:“熊咆龙吟殷岩泉”。

Example Sentences
1
But, as Dr Yin observes, that medium does not have to be liquid all the time.
2
In the case of Dr Yin' s beads, it is the rearrangement of the particles' microstructures that produces the pertinent detail.
3
In practice, Dr Yin thinks liquid-crystal technology is so well developed that his microspheres will never catch up.
4
To make their spheres Dr Yin and his colleagues stir iron-oxide particles into a liquid polymer resin, which is then dispersed in oil.