Counterpart of yang

The answer

YIN

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YIN answer page.

Used 8 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for YIN

Every other clue in this collection answered by YIN, most used first.

• Yang's counterpart - used 109 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ and yang - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Yang's partner - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Feminine side - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Yang's opposite - used 36 times, most recently in 2024
• Feminine force - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Yang counterpart - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Feminine principle - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• The dark side - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Yang's complement - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Yang partner - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Dark side - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• The feminine side, in Chinese circles - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Yang go-with - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Dark principle - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
• Passive principle - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Dark half of a Chinese circle - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Id counterpart - EGO, used 162 times
• Bro's counterpart - SIS, used 59 times
• To's counterpart - FRO, used 44 times
• Rep.'s counterpart - SEN, used 43 times
• Aurora's counterpart - EOS, used 42 times
• Pac. counterpart - ATL, used 40 times

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