You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Entry: yin Kangxi strokes: 11 Page 1150, Entry 04 Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters) states it is the same as the character for chanting (yin). Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Learning (Xueji): Reciting from the bamboo strips. Note: This refers to the act of groaning or chanting. Also written in a variant form (yin). Also used as a personal name. Xi-yin and Yin appear in the History of Song (Songshi), Table of the Imperial Clan.