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殷

Mandarin · pinyin yān#

dark red

Mandarin · pinyin yīn#

flourishing
abundant
earnest
hospitable

Mandarin · pinyin yǐn#

roll of thunder

Mandarin · pinyin Yīn#

surname Yin
dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after its move to Yinxu 殷墟 Yīn xū in present-day Henan

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殷: yīn · many, great; abundant, flourishing

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1 · yan1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

aan1 · jan1 · jan2 · jin1

Cantonese word readings for 殷. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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(metonymic) (～朝) Shang Dynasty after Pan Geng moved the capital of the state to its final location at Yīn (i.e., Late Shang Dynasty)
(by extension) (～朝) Alternative name for 商 (shāng, “Shang Dynasty”).
abundant; rich
(literary) large; flourishing
(literary) many; numerous
(of emotions) deep
a surname

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blood red; deep red

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(literary, onomatopoeia) resonant, sustained sound of thunder; rumble
to shake; to tremble

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