The cause of this fire was a microwave oven.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
起因
cause
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
cause
02
a factor (leading to an effect)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 起因 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 起因 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 起因.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 起因.
Directly before
- 的起因2
Directly after
- 起因都1
- 起因是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 起因
What does 起因 mean in Chinese?
起因 (qǐyīn) means cause.
How do you pronounce 起因?
起因 is pronounced qǐyīn.
Is 起因 an HSK word?
起因 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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