因而 yīn’ér▶ así

Stroke order

因而 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 因 — 6 strokes
• 而 — 6 strokes

Senses

1. therefore
2. as a result
3. thus
4. and as a result, ...

Related words

• 从而así
• 反而En su lugar, en vez de
• 因素Factor
• 而y
• 原因razón
• 因此por lo tanto

因而 is pronounced yīn’ér and means “así”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 因而 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.