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之所以

zhī suǒ yǐ

HSK 3.0 level 6 3-character word

之所以 (zhī suǒ yǐ) means "(after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 之所以 means

1. (after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P
2. Example: {我之所以讨厌他|wǒ zhī suǒ yǐ tǎo yàn tā} "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)"

The characters in 之所以

• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her
• 所suǒactually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc
• 以yǐto use; by means of; according to

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