姻

See also 婣

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 因 – marriage of/to a woman.

Han character

姻 (radical 38 女+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 田大尸 (WKS), four-corner 4640₀, composition ⿱女因)

1. marry, marriage
2. relatives by marriage

References

• KangXi: page 261, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6250
• Dae Jaweon: page 527, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1044, character 8
• Unihan data for U+59FB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

姻 (Yale yan1)

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Japanese

Kanji

姻 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: いん (in)
• Kun: とつぐ (totsugu)

Compounds

• 婚姻 (こんいん, kon'in, “marriage, matrimony”)

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Korean

Hanja

姻 (hangeul 인, revised in, McCune-Reischauer in)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

姻 (pinyin ráo (rao2), yīn (yin1), Wade-Giles jao², yin¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

姻 (nhân)