原因

HSK 4#441 by frequencyradical 厂

yuán yīn["n"]

reason; cause; origin; root cause

Measure word: 个

Examples

原因呢？

And what was the reason?

是什么原因？

What's causing it?

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.