(suǒ) - so, therefore; place; measure word for buildings in Mandarin
suǒTraditional: 所
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.
Appears in 5 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 所.
Used in
Grammar articles
(4)Mandarin Advanced Grammar (C1-C2 / HSK 6+): Chengyu, Classical Remnants, and Register
Concession in Mandarin: 虽然...还是/但是, 不过, and 还是 (Although, Even So, Nonetheless)
Mandarin Conjunctions: 虽然…但是, 因为…所以, 如果…就 and the Paired Structures That Join Clauses
Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
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