阴森森

陰森森
yīnsēnsēn
adjective #37,435

Meanings

  1. 1 gloomy and eerie
  2. 2 dark and forbidding
  3. 3 spooky

Examples

HSK 5
Tā yòng yīnsēnsēn de mùguāng kàn zhe wǒ.
He stared at me with a sinister look.
HSK 7-9
Gǔbǎo lǐ yīnsēnsēn de, ràng rén fādǒu.
Inside the old castle it was dark and eerie, making people shiver.
HSK 7-9
Zhè tiáo xiǎoxiàng wǎnshang yīnsēnsēn de.
This alley feels spooky at night.

Tips

grammar
ABB-pattern adjective: base 阴森 ('gloomy') intensified by reduplicating 森. ABB adjectives almost always need 的 before a noun: 阴森森的房子 ('a gloomy house').
memory
森 is three 木 trees stacked = a dense forest. Triple it in this word and you get the feeling of a sunless, tree-shrouded place, exactly the mood 阴森森 conveys.

Stroke Order

阴 yīn
森 sēn