原来 原來
原来原來 in English
- original / former / originally / formerly / at first / so, actually, as it turns out
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
原
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 11 forms
来
These are the forms of 來, the traditional character: 来 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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你一用完了这本书，就把它放回原来找到的地方。
When you're done with the book, put it back where you found it.
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你的家长原来很爱我们.
Your parents used to really love us.
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原来如此！
So that's how it is!