阴
Meaning
- overcast (weather)
- cloudy
- shady
Example sentence
天气变阴了。
The weather turned bad.
The character 阴
阴 is 阝, a mound, beside 月, the moon: the shaded side of a hill. Overcast — 阴天 — and the dark half of 阴阳, where the sunlit slope 阳 is the 阳 of 太阳.