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.(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		因

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīn (yin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: yin¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: in
    • IPA ^(key): /in⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jan¹
    • Yale: yān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jan¹
    • IPA ^(key): /jɐn⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (因, reconstructed)
Character (因), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 眞 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 於眞切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔiɪn/	/ʔi̯ĕn/	/ʔiĕn/	/ʔin/	/ʔin/	/ĭĕn/	/ʔjen/

Old Chinese pronunciation (因, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
因								yīn								‹ ʔjin ›								/*ʔi[n]/								rely on
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
因					15176					因					眞					1					因					/*qin/					甲文象人臥於茵席，爲茵初文

Definitions

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
• 咖啡因 (kāfēiyīn)

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Japanese

Kanji

因

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

因 (nhân, nhằn, dăn, nhăn, nhơn)

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