Character: 隱
Modern (Beijing) reading: yǐn
Preclassic Old Chinese: ʔǝnʔ
Classic Old Chinese: ʔǝ́n
Western Han Chinese: ʔǝ́n
Eastern Han Chinese: ʔǝ́n
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʔɨ́n
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʔɨ́n
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʔɨ́n
Middle Chinese: ʔɨ́́n
Fanqie: 倚謹 [a] 倚覲 [b]
Rhyme class: 吻 [a] 震 [b]
English meaning : to correct
Russian meaning[s]: 1) скрытый, тайный; скрывать, прятать; загадка; 2) уединяться; уйти со службы; жить на покое; 3) болеть; боль, страдание; 4) бедный, нищий; 5) тщательно взвешивать (обдумывать); вынашивать; [yìn] опираться, облокачиваться
Shuowen gloss: 蔽也. 從阜. [-隱]聲.
Comments: Also means 'suffering, painful'. A reconstruction OC *ʔǝrʔ is also possible (no OC rhymes for the word are attested). The more usual meaning of the character is 'to hide'; it occurs in texts since Late Zhou.
Radical: 170
Four-angle index: 8357
Karlgren code: 0449 a
Vietnamese reading: â`n
Shijing occurrences: 26.1
