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▪ I. ‖ yin|jɪn|
Also Yin, Yn.
[Chinese yīn shade, feminine; the moon.]
a. In Chinese philosophy, the feminine or negative principle (characterized by dark, wetness, cold, passivity, disintegration, etc.) of the two opposing cosmic forces into which creative energy divides and whose fusion in physical matter brings the phenomenal world into being. Also attrib. or as adj., and transf. Cf. yang.
1671, etc. [see yang]. 1845, etc. [see T'ai Chi 1]. 1850[see qi]. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 68/1 The altar to the Earth is dark and square, on the north side of the city, the region of yin, the principle of cold and gloom. 1931A. U. Dilley Oriental Rugs & Carpets ix. 210 Other primitive motives are..male and female forms called Yin and Yang. 1963‘R. Erskine’ Passion Flowers in Italy xi. 144 The things that woman was doing to us..More truly Yin than you could believe. 1976H. Ferguson Confessions of Long Distance Acid Head 17 Lucy was so yin, receptive and feminine, that the passions, slumbering in my bosom, were consciously aroused.
b. Comb., as yin-yang, the combination or fusion of the two cosmic forces; freq. attrib., esp. as yin-yang symbol, a circle divided by an S-shaped line into a dark and a light segment, representing respectively yin and yang, each containing a ‘seed’ of the other.
1850Chinese Repository XIX. 375 The Great Extreme..is not exterior to or separate from the Yin-yáng. 1934A. D. Waley Way & its Power App. ii. 112 The aim of the yin-yang philosophers was not the triumph of Light, but the attainment in human life of perfect balance between the two principles. 1958W. Willetts Chinese Art I. iv. 273 The observed behaviour of this stellar couple accorded perfectly with the yin yang theory. 1972Manaka & Urquhart Layman's Guide Acupuncture (1977) i. 32 Their relativity and inseparability are symbolized by the inclusion, in the Chinese yin-yang symbol, of a small portion of each within the other. 1976C. Soo Chinese Art of T'ai Chi Ch'uan iii. 19 When these [outlines] are put together, the Yin-Yang symbol is obtained. 1977Miller & Swift Words & Women iv. 69 The ancient belief that contrasting male and female forces are at work in everything—the yin⁓yang of dark and light..too easily becomes an adversary concept.
▪ II. yin, ying
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