因 meaning and pronunciation

因
Simplified/traditional character

因 English definition

yīn
  • cause
  • reason
  • because

HSK levels

Characters with the same pronunciation

  • 喑 : mute;
  • 囙 : 𣪊
  • 垔 : to restrain; to dam a stream and change its direction; a mound;
  • 堙 : bury; mound; to dam; close;
  • 姻 : marriage connections;
  • 愔 : peaceful; solemn;
  • 慇 : solicitous;
  • 氤 : generative forces; magic emanation;
  • 洇 : to soak; to blotch; to splotch;
  • 溵 : used in place-names, e.g. 溵水 was once the name of the Shahe River 沙河, Henan, and 溵州 was a Tang Dynasty prefecture;
  • 瘖 : mute;
  • 禋 : sacrifice;
  • 筃 : a kind of bamboo; old variant of 茵[yin1];
  • 絪 : generative force; magic emanation;
  • 茵 : mattress;
  • 裀 : mat; underclothing;
  • 铟 : indium (chemistry);
  • 闉 : inner gates;
  • 阴 : overcast (weather); cloudy; shady; Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang); negative (electric.); feminine; moon; implicit; hidden; genitalia;
  • 音 : sound; noise; note (of musical scale); tone; news; syllable; reading (phonetic value of a character);
  • 骃 : iron-gray (horse);

Sentences examples with 因

  • 因为……下雨了，因为……我没去跑步。
    Yīnwèi……xià yǔle, yīnwèi……wǒ méi qù pǎobù.
  • 他把原因解释得很清楚。
    Tā bǎ yuányīn jiěshì dé hěn qīngchǔ.
  • 因为努力学习，他获得了理想的成绩。
    Yīnwèi nǔlì xuéxí, tā huòdéle lǐxiǎng de chéngjī.
  • 他把这件事的原因给大家说明了一下。
    Tā bǎ zhè jiàn shì de yuányīn gěi dàjiā shuōmíngliǎo yīxià.
  • 我已经找出问题的原因了。
    Wǒ yǐjīng zhǎo chū wèntí de yuányīnle.

Words containing 因, by HSK level

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