因 — cause, factor, be associated with

いん因 cause

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes

U+56E0 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #636 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #626 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

cause
factor
be associated with
depend on
be limited to

word

いん in On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

原(げん) 因(いん) genin cause 要(よう) 因(いん) youin factor 因(いん) 果(が) inga cause and effect 起(き) 因(いん) kiin cause 因(いん) 子(し) inshi factor 一(いち) 因(いん) ichiin one cause 因(いん) 縁(ねん) innen fate

ちな china Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

因(ちな) みに chinamini by the way

Appears in idioms

因果応報四字熟語

cause, fruit, apply, report

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

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おおきい大 big #37

Used as component in (3)

おん恩 grace いん姻 matrimony いん咽 throat

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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