陰性

陰性

See also: 阴性

Chinese

		(of weather) overcast; Yin; feminine (of weather) overcast; Yin; feminine; moon; cloudy; negative (electric.); shady	sex; nature; suffix corresponding to ‑ness or ‑ity
trad. (陰性)		陰	性
simp. (阴性)		阴	性

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīnxìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣ ㄒㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam¹ sing³
• Min Nan (POJ): im-sèng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yīnxìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣ ㄒㄧㄥˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: inshinq
    • IPA ^(key): /in⁵⁵ ɕiŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jam¹ sing³
    • Yale: yām sing
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam¹ sing³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem¹ xing³
    • IPA ^(key): /jɐm⁵⁵ sɪŋ³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: im-sèng
    • Tâi-lô: im-sìng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: imsexng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /im³³ ɕiɪŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /im⁴⁴⁻²² ɕiɪŋ²¹/

Noun

陰性

1. (medicine) negativity (on a test)

   呈陰性 / 呈阴性  ―  chéng yīnxìng  ―  to be negative (on a test)

2. (linguistics) feminine gender

Synonyms

• 陽性／阳性 (yángxìng)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
陰	性
いん Grade: S	せい Grade: 5
on’yomi

Adjective

陰性 (hiragana いんせい, rōmaji insei)

1. negative

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Korean

Hanja in this term
陰	性

Noun

陰性 • (eumseong) (hangeul 음성)

1. Hanja form^? of 음성 (“negative”).

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Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word
陰	性

Adjective

陰性

1. Hán tự form of âm tính (“negative”).