所以 suǒyǐ
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suǒyǐ
conjunction therefore / as a result / so
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words , 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). -
suǒyǐ
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).
Contained in
- 不知所以 to not know the reason / to not know what to do
- 之所以 the reason why
- 所以然 the reason why
- 知其然而不知其所以然 to know that it is so but not why it is so
- 忘乎所以 to get carried away / to forget oneself
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: 57
- 周語下 Discourses of Zhou III Guoyu 國語 — count: 42
- 卷十七 天地之行第七十八 威德所生第七十九 如天之為第八十 天地陰陽第八十一 天道施第八十二 Scroll 17 Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露 — count: 39
- 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
- 《扁鵲倉公列傳》 Biographies of Bian Que and the Duke of Cang Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 32
- 卷二十一 要略 Chapter 21: Summary Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 31
- 《中庸》 The State of Equilibrium and Harmony, also known as the Doctrine of the Mean The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 28
- 周語中 Discourses of Zhou II Guoyu 國語 — count: 28
- 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 26
- 禮論篇第十九 Chapter 19: Discussion on Ceremony Xunzi 荀子 — count: 26