之 所 以

zhīsuǒyǐ

conjunctionHSK 7-9

Meaning

(after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P
Example: 我之所以討厭他|我之所以讨厌他[wo3 zhi1 suo3 yi3 tao3 yan4 ta1] "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)"

Example

他们之所以没有游泳，就因为天气很冷。

They didn't swim because it was cold.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

zhīHSK 43 strokes(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5])suǒHSK 28 strokesactually yǐHSK 24 strokesabbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]

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