(suǒ) - so, therefore; place; measure word for buildings in Mandarin

suǒ

Traditional: 所

HSK 3

#303 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

so, therefore; place; measure word for buildings

Word origin

所 (suǒ) means 'place' and serves as a grammatical particle. It is a phono-semantic compound with 斤 (axe) as one element and 戶 (hù, door) as the other, originally denoting the sound of chopping or a place.

Origin: phono-semantic compound
Root: 戶 (hù, door, phonetic) + 斤 (jīn, axe)

Stroke order

所

Examples

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So I am not going.

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Everything he said is true.

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This is the place where he works.

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This is what I know.

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What he did was very moving.

所 (suǒ) - so, therefore; place; measure word for buildings.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 所.

所以suǒ yǐtherefore, so, as a result 所有suǒ yǒuall, every, all of 所有人suǒ yǒu réneveryone, all people 厕所cè suǒtoilet, lavatory, washroom 所谓suǒ wèiso-called, what is called, alleged

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This word is part of lesson 7.