既然 jìrán
conjunction
since / as / this being the case
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
, Subdomain: Function Words 虚词
, Concept: Correlative 关联词
Notes: This conjunction is often used as a connecting word in the subordinate clause of subordinate complex sentences. It is often used in the pattern 既然…，就… to express a conclusion deduced from a premise (Sun 2006, loc. 2069).
Texts that the word is most frequently mentioned in
| Collection | Document Title | Occurrences |
|---|---|---|
| The Scholars 《儒林外史》 | 第三十五回 Chapter 35 | 2 |
| The Scholars 《儒林外史》 | 第四回 Chapter 4 | 2 |
| Records of the Grand Historian 《史記》 | 《李斯列傳》 Biography of Li Si | 1 |
| Records of the Three Kingdoms 《三國志》 | 卷五十七 吳書十二 虞陸張駱陸吾朱傳 Volume 57: Book of Wu 12 - Biographies of Yu, Lu, Zhang, Luo, Lu, Wu, and Zhu | 1 |
| Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹《四書章句集注》 | 《公冶長第五》 Commentary on Gong Ye Zhang V | 1 |
| Book of Han 《漢書》 | 卷二十三 刑法志 Volume 23: Treatise on Punishment and Law | 1 |
| Book of Jin 《晉書》 | 卷七十五 列傳第四十五 王湛 荀崧 范汪 劉惔 張憑 韓伯 Volume 75 Biographies 45: Wang Zhan; Xun Song; Fan Wang; Liu Tan | 1 |
| The Scholars 《儒林外史》 | 第八回 Chapter 8 | 1 |
| History of Yuan 《元史》 | 卷一百九十 列傳第七十七: 儒學二 Volume 190 Biographies 77: Confucian Scholars 2 | 1 |
| The Book of Songs 《詩經》 | 國風‧衞‧氓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mang | 1 |