yīn

a cushion

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

因 sound component

  Sound component

yīn

  

cause

Evolution

茵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
茵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
茵 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
茵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yīn

a cushion, mattress; wormwood; Skimmia japon; mattress

Most common words with 茵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

mattress

绿茵场

football field

莱茵河

Rhine River

绿草如茵

green grass like cushion (idiom); green meadow so inviting to sleep on

绿茵

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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