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理所当然

lǐ suǒ dāng rán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 理所當然

理所当然 (lǐ suǒ dāng rán) means "as it should be by rights (idiom); proper and to be expected as a matter of course; inevitable and right". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 理所当然 means

1. as it should be by rights (idiom); proper and to be expected as a matter of course
2. inevitable and right

The characters in 理所当然

• 理lǐtexture; grain (of wood); inner essence
• 所suǒactually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc
• 当dāng(onomatopoeia) dong; ding dong (bell)
• 然ráncorrect; right; so

Example sentences

• 她理所当然的取得了胜利。
  Tā lǐsuǒdāngrán de qǔdé le shènglì.
  She's sure to succeed.

Where 理所当然 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · lèng–lǐ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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