yin
IPA: jˈɪn
noun
- (philosophy) A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with dark, cool, female, etc. elements of the natural world.
- A surname.
- A mountain range in northern China at the southeast end of the Gobi Desert.
- (historical) an alternative name for the Shang dynasty
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Examples of "yin" in Sentences
- He and Vicious are yin and yang.
- In power, the yin reasserts itself.
- There is no Yin in economics at all.
- It is rooted in the dynamisim of the Yin and Yang.
- The open line represents yin, the receptive principle.
- It's the yang to the yin of most dinosaur epistemology.
- The Unicorn is the opposite of the Lion, being pure Yin.
- The ideas of yin and yang are used in the sphere of food and cooking.
- Yin is the shade, the nurturing, maternal and gentle aspect of the universe.
- In the yin yang symbol there is a dot of yin in yang and a dot of yang in yin.
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