イン

イ

ン

Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 1,000

Meanings

usually written using kana alonesports

Sports term for a ball landing inside the boundary line, especially in tennis. Opposite of アウト.

ボールがインになるfor the ball to land in bounds
彼かれのサーブはぎりぎりインになった。
His serve just barely landed in.
〈場ば所しょ〉のインコースを走はしるto run in the inside lane of a track
彼かの女じょはインコースを走はしって優ゆう勝しょうした。
She won the race running in the inside lane.
インで〈数かず〉オーバーするto finish the back nine a certain number of strokes over par
彼かれはインで2オーバーだった。
He was two over par on the back nine.
〈時とき〉イン、〈時とき〉アウトcheck-in at ... time, check-out at ... time
このホテルは15時じイン、11時じアウトです。
This hotel checks you in at 3 p.m. and out at 11 a.m.

アウト
Opposite of イン in many senses: out of bounds, outside, exit, front nine, outside lane, check-out.
チェックイン
Full form of the abbreviation イン for check-in; more formal and explicit.

アウトN3sense 1
イン describes a ball landing inside the boundary line, while ＯＵＴ describes it landing outside, as in tennis or volleyball scoring.

チェックインpolite 丁寧語N3sense 6
イン is a casual, shortened way to say check-in time, while チェックイン is the fuller, more explicit term used in formal contexts like hotel or airport signage.

インUsage56%
Standard katakana spelling for this loanword. It is usually written in kana.
ＩＮUsage44%
Fullwidth Latin-letter spelling; occasionally seen in signs or stylized text, but uncommon in normal writing.

Borrowed from English 'in'. No explicit language of origin information is specified, but the word is clearly a loanword.