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原因

yuán yīn

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Measure word 个

原因 (yuán yīn) means "cause". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 原因 means

1. cause
2. origin
3. root cause
4. reason

The characters in 原因

• 原yuánformer; original; primary
• 因yīncause; reason; because

Example sentences

• 原因呢？
  And what was the reason?
• 是什幺原因？
  What's causing it?
• 我明白原因。
  I understand why.
• 起火原因不明。
  Qǐhuǒ yuányīn bù míng.
  The cause of the fire is not known.
• 是什幺原因呢？
  What's the reason?
• 火灾的原因不明。
  Huǒzāi de yuányīn bù míng.
  The cause of the fire was unknown.

Sounds the same

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

• 元音vowel

Where 原因 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yuán yīn correctly.
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