yīn
a cushion
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 因 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 茵
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
mattress | ||
football field | ||
Rhine River | ||
green grass like cushion (idiom); green meadow so inviting to sleep on | ||
grassy area |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.5446% of movies
3209th most common character in movies
2765th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+8335 |
Shuowen | “茵，車重席。从艸，因聲。鞇，司馬相如說茵从革。” |
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