漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
因: cause, factor
Also: be associated with, depend on, be limited to
JLPT N36 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
囗 carries the meaning · 大 is drawn in
6 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
インin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 因子いんしfactor, element
- 因数いんすうfactor (math)
- 因縁いんねんfate, destiny
- 因果関係いんがかんけいcausal relationship, nexus
- 死因しいんcause of death
- 原因げんいんcause, origin, source
よるyoru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 因るよるcome from, be due to
Also read ちなむ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine a sturdy wall encircling a city! This radical completely wraps around other elements, containing them safely within its borders like a fence or a country's frontier.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side因 cause · 大
vs団 group · 寸In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yīn
Same form: 因 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 因 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 因 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yīn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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