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因素

yīn sù

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 个

因素 (yīn sù) means "element; factor". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 因素 means

1. element
2. factor

The characters in 因素

• 因yīncause; reason; because
• 素sùraw silk; white; plain, unadorned

Example sentences

• 她考虑环境因素。
  She considers environmental factors.
• 他们确认了风险因素。
  They identified the risk factors.
• 她因为健康因素休学了。
  Tā yīnwèi jiànkāng yīnsù xiūxué le.
  She has dropped out of school due to health issues.
• 诚实是他成功最重要的因素。
  Chéngshí shì tā chénggōng zuì zhòngyào de yīnsù.
  Honesty was the most important factor in his success.
• 酗酒是导致阳痿的一个因素。
  Xùjiǔ shì dǎozhì yángwěi de yī gè yīnsù.
  Excessive drinking is one of the causes of impotence.
• 物价上涨是多方因素造成的。
  Wùjià shàngzhǎng shì duōfāng yīnsù zàochéng de.
  Several factors operated to help prices go up.

Words containing 因素

• 理化因素lǐ huà yīn sùphysical and chemical factors
• 环境因素huán jìng yīn sùenvironmental factor

Sounds the same

Read yīn sù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 音速speed of sound
• 音素phoneme

Where 因素 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Festivals, Origins & Reasons (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yīn sù correctly.
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