诱因 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

yòu persuade Simplified

To use elegant 秀 words 讠; 秀 also provides the pronunciation

Components

讠 Meaning component

yán speech

秀 Sound Meaning component

xiù elegant, excellent

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

yīn cause

Original meaning: underclothing

Pictograph of clothing surrounding (囗) a person (大), now written as 裀. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

囗 Iconic component

wéi, guó surround

Depicts clothing surrounding a person.

大 Iconic component

dà, dài big

Depicts a person.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

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Sound (4 of 10 verified)

恩烟姻咽茵胭氤洇铟裀

Iconic (1)

裀

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	'jin	ʔi[n]	rely on

說文解字

《說文》：“因，就也。从囗、大。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.518漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

yòu persuade Traditional

To use elegant 秀 words 言; 秀 also provides the pronunciation

Components

言 Meaning component

yán speech

秀 Sound Meaning component

xiù elegant, excellent

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	yuwX	luʔ	lead; influence
Zhengzhang		luʔ

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica

诱 yòu persuade Simplified

Components

Sources

因 yīn cause

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (4 of 10 verified)

Iconic (1)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

誘 yòu persuade Traditional

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Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

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yòu persuade Simplified

yīn cause

yòu persuade Traditional