First opened Tuesday, October 30, 2007
因る
よる
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
to come from
Yoru, “to come from”, is cognate with 寄る (yoru, “to approach”) and 拠る (yoru, “to be based on”).
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 因
In a sentence
彼女は両親によって立派に育てられた。
She was well brought up by her parents.
造られたもので、この方によらずできたものは一つもない。
Without him nothing was made that has been made.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Cognate with 寄る (yoru, “to approach”) and 拠る (yoru, “to be based on, to depend on”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 因る (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.