Trace Panda
■ radical

yīn

cause

How it’s built

Pictograph of clothing surrounding (囗) a person (人), now written as 裀. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

囗
iconic

wall; surrounding — Depicts clothing surrounding a person.

大
iconic

big — Depicts a person.

Through the ages

Bronze script
Seal script

Appears in

Characters that use 因 as a component, most common first.

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