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恩

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favor; grace; kindness; (coll.) used like 嗯[en4] in online chat, expressing agreement

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HSK 3.0
Level 6
Old HSK
Level 6
Strokes
10
Radical
心 +6
Structure
Top–bottom 上下
Traditional
恩
Common rank
#712
Unicode
U+6069

Formation & memory

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How 恩 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

心 meaning “heart” + 因 sound ( yīn )

Components 因 心

How to remember it

kindness · Heisig RSH #570

因 cause + 心 heart

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 恩

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WordPinyinMeaning
恩比天大 ēn bǐ tiān dà to be as kind and benevolent as heaven (idiom)
波恩大学 Bō ēn Dà xué University of Bonn
阿美恩斯 Ā měi ēn sī Amiens (French town)
恩平市 Ēn píng Shì Enping, a county-level city in Jiangmen City 江門市|江门市[Jiang1 men2 Shi4], Guangdong
斯特恩 Sī tè ēn Stern (name)
科罗恩病 Kē luó ēn bìng Krohn's disease
恩阳区 Ēn yáng Qū Enyang, a district of Bazhong City 巴中市[Ba1 zhong1 Shi4], Sichuan
知恩不报 zhī ēn bù bào ungrateful
恩格斯 Ēn gé sī Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), socialist philosopher and one of the founder of Marxism
恩格尔 Ēn gé ěr Engel (name); Ernst Engel (1821-1896), German statistician
格恩西岛 Gé ēn xī dǎo Guernsey (Channel Islands)
罗伯特·伯恩斯 Luó bó tè · Bó ēn sī Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet
金正恩 Jīn Zhèng ēn Kim Jong-un (c. 1983-), third son of Kim Jong-il 金正日[Jin1 Zheng4 ri4], supreme leader of N…
马恩列斯 Mǎ Ēn Liè Sī abbr. for Marx 馬克思|马克思[Ma3 ke4 si1], Engels 恩格斯[En1 ge2 si1], Lenin 列寧|列宁[Lie4 ning2] and …
那木巴尔·恩赫巴亚尔 Nǎ mù bā ěr · Ēn hè bā yà ěr Nambaryn Enkhbayar (1958-), Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party politician, president o…
恩里科·费米 Ēn lǐ kē · Fèi mǐ Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Italian born US nuclear physicist
马恩岛 Mǎ ēn Dǎo Isle of Man, British Isles; Isle of Mann
恩施土家族苗族自治州 Ēn shī Tǔ jiā zú Miáo zú Zì zhì zhōu Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Hubei Province 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3]
恩人 ēn rén a benefactor; a person who has significantly helped sb else
伯恩斯 Bó ēn sī (surname) Burns; Nicholas Burns (1956–), US ambassador to China 2022–2025

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 因 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
因 sound part yīn cause, reason; by; because
烟 yān smoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes
咽 yàn throat; pharynx
茵 yīn mattress, cushion; wormwood, Skimmia japon
胭 yān cosmetics, rouge
洇 yīn to soak; to blot, to splotch
氤 yīn fog, mist
铟 yīn indium