所以 suǒyǐ
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conjunction
therefore / as a result / so
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 main clause of subordinate complex sentences. It is often used in the pattern 因为…，所以… to express cause and effect (Sun 2006, loc. 2053). -
phrase
that by which
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In Literary Chinese this phrase is composed of two characters, in contrast with the single word 'therefore' in modern Chinese (Pulleyblank 1995, p. 50).
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 《中庸章句》 Commentary on Doctrine of the Mean Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹《四書章句集注》 — count: 83
- 周語下 Discourses of Zhou III Guoyu 《國語》 — count: 42
- 卷二十二 志第二: 禮儀二 Volume 22 Treatises 2: Rites 2 Old Book of Tang 《舊唐書》 — count: 36
- 禮論篇第十九 Chapter 19: Discussion on Ceremony Xunzi 《荀子》 — count: 35
- 詭使第四十五 Chapter 45: Absurd Encouragements Han Feizi 《韓非子》 — count: 35
- 《扁鵲倉公列傳》 Biographies of Bian Que and the Duke of Cang Records of the Grand Historian 《史記》 — count: 34
- 卷二十一 要略 Chapter 21: Summary Huainanzi 《淮南子》 — count: 33
- 《中庸》 The State of Equilibrium and Harmony, also known as the Doctrine of the Mean The Book of Rites 《禮記》 — count: 31
- Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 《道德經》 — count: 31
- 卷九 主術訓 Chapter 9: The Sovereign's Methods Huainanzi 《淮南子》 — count: 30