yīn
marriage connection
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 因 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 姻
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
matrimony | ||
marriage law | ||
related by marriage | ||
a marriage predestined by fate | ||
marriage connections |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 17.1232% of movies
1442nd most common character in movies
2007th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+59FB |
Shuowen | “姻，壻家也，女之所因，故曰姻。从女，从因，因亦聲。婣，籀文姻从。” |
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