Yīn (surname 陰)
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Stroke order of 阴, the Simplified form of the Yīn character. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 陰 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 阴 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | darkness (yin) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yīn (trad. 陰, simp. 阴) is a Chinese surname. It is Romanized as Im in Min Nan and Yam in Cantonese. According to a 2013 study, it was the 390th most common name in China; it was shared by 39,000 people, or 0.0067% of the population, being most popular in Shanxi. It is the 283rd name in the Hundred Family Surnames poem.
It should not be confused with the much more popular surname Yīn (殷), whose name comes from the Shang capital of Yin.