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yīn

Meanings

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yīn
  1. 1.to restrain
  2. 2.to dam a stream and change its direction
  3. 3.a mound

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to block up

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qin): phonetic 西 (OC *sɯːl) + semantic 土 (“dirt”)

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Components

西

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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