陰乾

Chinese

		(of weather) overcast; Yin; feminine (of weather) overcast; Yin; feminine; moon; cloudy; negative (electric.); shady	dry; clean; male dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname
trad. (陰乾)		陰	乾
simp. (阴干)		阴	干

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīngān

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣ ㄍㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam¹ gon¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīngān
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣ ㄍㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yingan
    • Wade–Giles: yin¹-kan¹
    • Yale: yīn-gān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ingan
    • Palladius: иньгань (inʹganʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in⁵⁵ kän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jam¹ gon¹
    • Yale: yām gōn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam¹ gon¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem¹ gon¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm⁵⁵ kɔːn⁵⁵/

Verb

陰乾

1. to dry in the shade

   • 凡此草芝，又有百二十種，皆陰乾服之，則令人與天地相畢，或得千歲二千歲。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     凡此草芝，又有百二十种，皆阴干服之，则令人与天地相毕，或得千岁二千岁。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: Ge Hong, Baopuzi, 4^th century CE

     Fán cǐ cǎo zhī, yòu yǒu bǎi èrshí zhǒng, jiē yīnqián fú zhī, zé lìng rén yǔ tiāndì xiàng bì, huò dé qiān suì èr qiān suì. [Pinyin]

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2. (Cantonese, figurative, of wealth, resources, etc.) to lose or be deprived gradually

Derived terms

• 神檯桔——陰乾／神台桔——阴干 (Cantonese)