Zi:因
因 [yīn] cause; 因为 because; 原因 reason; (HDZ:) 依靠, 凭借 …; 沿袭, 承接 …; (姓)
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The Shuōwén Seal form of 因 yīn ‘because of, rely/depend on’ (great/prior ancestor/causality, old customs) combines 囗 wéi ‘enclosure’ (bounds/scope), and 大 dà ‘big/great’ (extent, man with arms extended, spread wide): the arms extended define the bounds/limits of one's reach/influence; what one can reach, one can do/cause; what one has reached, one has influenced/caused; what reaches one, exerts its influence.
Compare: 茵 yīn ‘seat cushion/padding in a wagon; mat/mattress/bedding’; 姻 yīn ‘betroth (marry off) a daughter’; 恩 ēn ‘favor/grace/kindness’ (恩惠).
Compare: 囚 qiú ‘imprison/prisoner’ (imprisoned because of a crime); 昷(𥁕) wēn ‘food/kindness to (enemy) prisoners; mild/gentle’.
Compare: 困 kùn ‘old/walled farmstead/orchard’ (䷮).
Older graphs associated with 因 are said to depict a 大 person lying on a 囗 mattress, cf. 茵 yīn ‘cushion/mattress’ (王宏源).
Compare: 宿(㝛𠉦𠈇𡖕夙); 𠩛(席) xí ‘(plaited/woven reed/rush/straw) sitting/sleeping mat’; 𡜰(𡞔婁), cf. 娄.
HDZ: 因 : yīn : (SW: 就) 依靠, 凭借 (因人成事; 因地制宜) (cf. 茵, 㧢); 沿袭, 承接 (因循, 陈陈相因) (cf. 㧢); 顺随, 顺着; 亲, 亲近; 原因, 缘故 (成因, 病因, 事出有因, 前因后果); (佛教) 因缘 (Hetupratyaya); (数学) 乘; (佛教) 因明学 (Hetuvidya); 比况, 犹, 如同; (介词) 依照, 根据, 随着; (连词) 因而, 于是; 姻; (姓)
►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; Wáng(1993):138; EDOC:1
►components: 囗大
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