姻
yīn HSK7

marriage connection

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Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 因 represents the sound.

Components

女
女 Meaning component
因
因 Sound component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqin

說文解字

《說文》：“姻，壻家也，女之所因，故曰姻。从女，从因，因亦聲。婣，籀文姻从。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)