The kanji 因: meaning, readings and stroke order
因
- Meaning
- cause
- On reading
- イン in
- Kun reading
- よ(る) yoru
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 囗 enclosure
- Level
- Level 5 · grade 5
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- nguyên nhân (nhân)
- Japanese
- もと。わけ。
- Korean
- 까닭, 원인 (인)
- Chinese
- 原因
Readings, words and example sentences
イン in · on reading
原因
cause
事故の 原因を 調べます。
They look into the cause of the accident.
よ(る) yoru · kun reading · less common
因る
to be caused by, due to
不注意に 因る まちがいです。
This mistake came from not being careful.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.