Kanji1 / 6
因 kanji
cause, factor, be associated with, depend on, be limited to
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
イン
Kun readings
よるちなむ
Variant forms
囙Words with 因
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —画因art motif
- —外因external cause; external origin; exogenous cause
- —業因karma
- —偶因contingent cause
- —真因true reason; true motive
- —素因basic factor; (medical) predisposition; diathesis
- —動因drive; motive; agent
- —内因internal cause; intrinsic motivation
- —副因secondary cause
- —因習convention; tired tradition; old custom
- —病因the cause of a disease
- —成因origin; cause
- —近因immediate cause; proximate cause
- —悪因root of evil; bad cause
- —心因psychogenesis
- —訴因charge; count
- —従因secondary cause
- —導因incentive; inducement
- —因明hetuvidya (ancient Indian logic for determining right from wrong, truth from falsehood, etc.)
- —約因consideration (in contract law, the thing given or done by the promisee in exchange for the promise)