原来 - Mandarin word #850

原来

yuánlái

Traditional: 原來

HSK 4

#850 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

originally, as it turned out, so

Stroke order

原

来

！

So you are here!

。

So that is how it is.

员yuán。

He was originally an actor.

。

So you are here as well.

。

So it was you who called.

原来 (yuán lái) means originally, as it turned out, so. It is used as an adverb in everyday Mandarin speech.

后来

afterwards, later

既然

since, as, given that

那时

at that time, then

早就

long ago, already by now

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 17.