印

Yin4
#639 most
frequent character
surname Yin, abbr. for 印度[Yin4du4], India

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

In 印, a hand bears down on a kneeling figure 卩, and the first sense is pressing someone down. That downward push became 'to stamp' or 'to print'. The mark a stamp leaves is the print or image.

Drawn as: hand pressing kneeling person

印 as a component in other characters

sound1 character
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