寅
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3rd earthly branch: 3-5 a.m., 1st solar month (4th February-5th March), year of the Tiger; ancient Chinese compass point: 60°
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 宀 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 寅
- Common rank
- #2,940
- Unicode
- U+5BC5
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 寅
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 文在寅 | Moon Jae-in (1953-), Korean politician and human rights lawyer, president of Korea from 20… | |
| 寅时 | 3-5 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) | |
| 子丑寅卯 | (idiom) a full and coherent account of a matter; the complete facts of the case; the whole… | |
| 甲寅 | 51st year A3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1974 or 2034 | |
| 寅虎 | Year 3, year of the Tiger (e.g. 2010) | |
| 寅吃卯粮 | lit. eating away next year's food in advance; fig. to dip into the next month's check; liv… | |
| 寅支卯粮 | see 寅吃卯糧|寅吃卯粮[yin2 chi1 mao3 liang2] | |
| 唐寅 | Tang Bohu 唐伯虎 or Tang Yin (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern t… | |
| 丙寅 | third year C3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1986 or 2046 | |
| 戊寅 | fifteenth year E3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1998 or 2058 | |
| 庚寅 | twenty-seventh year G3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2010 or 2070 | |
| 壬寅 | thirty-ninth year I3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1962 or 2022 |
Sound family
These characters use 寅 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 寅 sound part | to respect, to revere; respectfully; 3rd terrestrial branch | |
| 演 | to perform, to act, to put on a play | |
| 夤 | late at night; distant, remote; deep |