原因
yuán yīn 2–1
cause; origin; root cause; reason
- Characters
- 2
- 原 · 因
- Syllables
- 2
- yuán yīn
- Frequency
- Very common
- corpus count 441
Part of speech: n
Character by character
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Example sentences
原因呢？
Yuán yīn ne
And what was the reason?
是什么原因？
Shì shén me yuán yīn
What's causing it?
是什么原因呢？
Shì shén me yuán yīn ne
What's the reason?
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 原因. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 因为yīn wèiHSK 2
because; owing to; on account of
- 因此yīn cǐHSK 3
thus; consequently; as a result
- 因yīnHSK 6
cause; reason; because
- 原来yuán láiHSK 2
original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out
- 原yuánHSK 6
former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source
- 原则yuán zéHSK 4
principle; doctrine
- 因素yīn sùHSK 6
element; factor
- 原谅yuán liàngHSK 6
to excuse; to forgive; to pardon
- 基因jī yīnHSK 7
gene (loanword)
- 原本yuán běnHSK 7
originally; original
- 原始yuán shǐHSK 5
first; original; primitive; original (document etc)
- 原告yuán gàoHSK 6
complainant; plaintiff
- 原料yuán liàoHSK 4
raw material
- 原理yuán lǐHSK 5
principle; theory
- 原先yuán xiānHSK 5
originally; original; former
- 原地yuán dìHSK 7
(in) the original place; the place where one currently is; place of origin; local (product)
- 草原cǎo yuánHSK 5
grassland; prairie
- 因而yīn érHSK 5
therefore; as a result; thus; and as a result, ...
- 还原huán yuánHSK 7
to restore to the original state; to reconstruct (an event); reduction (chemistry)
- 平原píng yuánHSK 5
field; plain
- 原有yuán yǒuHSK 5
original; former
- 原型yuán xíngHSK 7
model; prototype; archetype
- 高原gāo yuánHSK 5
plateau
- 复原fù yuánHSK 7
to restore (sth) to (its) former condition; to recover from illness; recovery