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于是

yú shì

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 於是

于是 (yú shì) means "thereupon; as a result; consequently; thus; hence". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 于是 means

1. thereupon; as a result; consequently; thus; hence

The characters in 于是

• 于yúto go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle
• 是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true…

Example sentences

• 于是我停止阅读。
  So I stopped reading.

Words starting with 于是

• 于是乎yú shì hūtherefore

Where 于是 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Logical connectives & conjunctions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
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