因

HSK 6#679 by frequencyradical 囗

yīn["p","c","g"]

cause; reason; because

Examples

起火原因不明。

The cause of the fire is not known.

书页因年久而变黄

The pages are turning yellow with the years.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.