You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Yin Kangxi Strokes: 15 Page 1166, Entry 07 Pronounced yin Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Simple and Compounding Characters): To remonstrate with a harmonious and pleasant demeanor. Yupian (Jade Chapters): The appearance of harmony and respect. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): The appearance of being upright and impartial. Leipian (Categorized Dictionary): To speak. Analects (Lunyu): During the morning audience, when speaking with the senior ministers, he was harmonious and respectful. Biography of Zhang Fu in the History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): Upon entering to serve as an attendant and lecturer, he frequently offered upright remonstrations; he was harmonious and sincere, expressing his feelings with genuine heart. Also a surname. Heyi Xingyuan (He Family Surname Garden): Currently people from Guangping. Also written in a variant form as yan yin. See the notes for the two characters yan yin mentioned previously. Pronounced yin. The meaning is the same.