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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

阴阳

yīnyáng

yin and yang

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

yin and yang

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 阴阳 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 阴阳 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

英文中没有阴阳性并不是因为英国人的文化偏向平等。yīng wén zhōng méi yǒu yīn yáng xìng bìng bú shì yīn wèi yīng guó rén de wén huà piān xiàng píng děng。

The lack of gender in English is not due to the English having a more egalitarian culture.

歧伯说:「这是天地本身的阴阳运行,并不是四时与五行按照次序运转。至於阴阳,它有名字却没有形体,所以可以分为十类,可以拆为百类,可以散为千类,可以推演为万类,说的就是这个道理。」qí bó shuō:「zhè shì tiān dì běn shēn de yīn yáng yùn xíng, bìng bú shì sì shí yǔ wǔ xíng àn zhào cì xù yùn zhuàn。 zhì yú yīn yáng, tā yǒu míng zì què méi yǒu xíng tǐ, suǒ yǐ kě yǐ fēn wéi shí lèi, kě yǐ chāi wèi bǎi lèi, kě yǐ sàn wèi qiān lèi, kě yǐ tuī yǎn wèi wàn lèi, shuō de jiù shì zhè ge dào lǐ。」

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 阴阳.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 阴阳.

Directly before

  • 没有阴阳1
  • 的阴阳1
  • 至於阴阳1

Directly after

  • 阴阳性1
  • 阴阳运行1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 阴阳

What does 阴阳 mean in Chinese?

阴阳 (yīnyáng) means yin and yang.

How do you pronounce 阴阳?

阴阳 is pronounced yīnyáng.

Is 阴阳 an HSK word?

阴阳 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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