Zi:因
因 [yīn] cause; 因为 because; 原因 reason
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A 大 (dà) person lying on a 囗 (wéi) mattress. Now ‘mattress’ is written 茵 yīn, the original character 因 having been borrowed for the identically pronounced abstract word yīn ‘cause’.
Don’t confuse 因 yīn with 困 kùn.
►references: Guǎngyùn:101.33; Wieger:60b; Karlgren:AD273,GSR370a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.711.9; Mathews:7407; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:217.02; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:027.1.03
►components: 囗大
►Cantonese: yan\
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Unicode: U+56E0
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