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
- —善因good cause (that will bring a good reward); good deed
- —二因two causes
- —三因three causes of Buddha nature
- —因州Inaba (former province located in the east of present-day Tottori Prefecture)
- —悪因縁evil destiny
- —因果者unlucky person
- —因果律law of cause and effect; principle of causality
- —素因数prime factor
- —主要因primary factor; main cause
- —主原因principal cause
- —零因子zero divisor; null factor; nil factor
- —補因子cofactor (biochemistry)
- —目的因final cause (one of Aristotle's four fundamental types of answer to the question "why?")
- —形相因formal cause (one of Aristotle's four fundamental types of answer to the question "why?")
- —質料因material cause (one of Aristotle's four fundamental types of answer to the question "why?")
- —動力因efficient cause (one of Aristotle's four fundamental types of answer to the question "why?")
- —作用因efficient cause (one of Aristotle's four fundamental types of answer to the question "why?")
- —因習的conventional
- —因州弁Inshū dialect (spoken in eastern Tottori)
- —因果性causality