恩
favor; grace; kindness; (coll.) used like 嗯[en4] in online chat, expressing agreement
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #712 U+6069
How 恩 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
心 (semantic, “heart”) + 因 (phonetic, yīn)
How to remember it
kindness · Heisig RSH #570
因 cause + 心 heart
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 因
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 因 (yīn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 因 sound component | 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 |
Words containing 恩
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |