因

See also 囙

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 囗 (“mouth, or opening”) + 大 (“large, or hands at full breadth”) – The largest in/from/of an opening is the first, by tradition/convention.: basis, cause.

	因	因	因
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

因 (radical 31 囗+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 田大 (WK), four-corner 6043₀, composition ⿴囗大)

1. cause, reason
2. by
3. because, because of

Derived characters

• 姻 咽

References

• KangXi: page 217, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4693
• Dae Jaweon: page 444, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 711, character 9
• Unihan data for U+56E0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

因 (Yale yan1)

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Japanese

Kanji

因 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: いん (in)
• Kun: よる (yoru), ちなむ (chinamu), よって (yotte)

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Korean

Hanja

因 (hangeul 인, revised in, McCune-Reischauer in)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

因 (pinyin yīn (yin1), Wade-Giles yin¹)

1. • John 1.7

     这人来，为要作见证，就是为光作见证，叫众人因他可以信。

     Zhè rén lái, wèi yào zuò jiànzhèng, jiùshì wèi guāng zuò jiànzhèng, jiào zhòngrén yīn tā kĕyǐ xìn.

     The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.

Compounds

• 因材施教
• 因此
• 因地制宜
• 因而
• 因果
• 因祸为福
• 因陋就简
• 因人成事
• 因人而异
• 因人废言
• 因时制宜
• 因式
• 因式分解
• 因势利导
• 因数
• 因素
• 因特网
• 因头
• 因为
• 因袭
• 因小见大
• 因小失大
• 因循
• 因循守旧
• 因噎废食
• 因由, 因由儿
• 因缘
• 因之
• 因子

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Vietnamese

Han character

因 (nhân, nhằn, dăn, nhăn, nhơn)