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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

因果

yīnguǒ

karma

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

karma

02

cause and effect

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 因果 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 因果 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

事事都是有因果的。shì shì dōu shì yǒu yīn guǒ de。

Everything has a cause and effect.

她一手策划陷害同事,到头来自己也遭人出卖,恶有恶报,因果不爽。tā yī shǒu cè huà xiàn hài tóng shì, dào tóu lái zì jǐ yě zāo rén chū mài, è yǒu è bào, yīn guǒ bù shuǎng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

彼岸花、开一千年、落一千年、花叶永不相见。情不为因果、縁注定生死。bǐ àn huā、 kāi yī qiān nián、 luò yī qiān nián、 huā yè yǒng bù xiāng jiàn。 qíng bù wèi yīn guǒ、 yuán zhù dìng shēng sǐ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 因果.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 因果.

Directly before

  • 情不为因果1
  • 有因果1

Directly after

  • 因果的1
  • 因果不爽1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 因果

What does 因果 mean in Chinese?

因果 (yīnguǒ) means karma.

How do you pronounce 因果?

因果 is pronounced yīnguǒ.

Is 因果 an HSK word?

因果 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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