原来

原來traditional

HSK 4#790 by frequencyradical 厂

yuán lái["d","b"]

originally; formerly; at first; original; former; so, actually, as it turns out

Examples

原来如此！

So that's how it is!

原来如此。

So that's what it is.

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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.