(1) Shadow, dark side. (2) Cloud, cloudy, vague. (3) Yin: The female principle; hidden, dark, softness, earth, internal, small as opposed to yang (阳): male, obvious, light, hardness, etc. (4) North side of a mountain, south side of a river, etc. (Buddhism) (1) Cluster, heap, aggregate, skandha 蕴. (2) Synthesis.