因

See also: 囙

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 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.

Historical forms of the character 因
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (因) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
欭	*qrils
烟	*qiːn, *qin
胭	*qiːn
咽	*qiːn, *qiːns, *qiːd
恩	*qɯːn
煾	*qɯːn
因	*qin
姻	*qin
茵	*qin
鞇	*qin
氤	*qin
洇	*qin
駰	*qin, *qrin
絪	*qin
裀	*qin

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 姻 咽

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 217, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4693
• Dae Jaweon: page 444, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): 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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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

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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

(deprecated template usage) 因 (nhân, nhằn, dăn, nhăn, nhơn)

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