印いん

noun

stamp; seal; chop

Refers to the physical stamp or seal object itself, such as a personal name seal (hanko/inkan) or an official stamp.

• 契けい約やく書しょに印いんを押おしてください。

  Please stamp the contract with your seal.

noun

seal impression; stamp mark; print

Refers to the mark or impression left by a stamp or seal, not the object itself. Used for official seals, rubber stamps, and printed marks.

• 書しょ類るいに印いんが押おしてあるか確かく認にんしてください。

  Please check whether the document has a seal impression on it.

noun

mudra; symbolic hand gesture

Buddhist term for ritual hand gestures seen in statues and iconography.

• 仏ぶつ像ぞうの印いんにはそれぞれ意い味みがある。

  Each mudra of a Buddhist statue has its own meaning.

noun

ninja hand sign

Refers to hand signs used by ninja in popular culture; not a historical technical term.

• 忍にん者じゃは印いんを結むすんで術じゅつを使つかうと言いわれる。

  Ninja are said to form hand signs to use their techniques.

noun

India (abbreviation)

Abbreviation of 印度 (インド). Rarely used independently in modern Japanese; mostly seen in compounds like 印パ (India-Pakistan) or 日印 (Japan-India).

See also: インド

• 「印いん」はインドの略りゃく称しょうとして使つかわれることがある。

  印 is sometimes used as an abbreviation for India.