本来 本來

本来本來 in English

běn lái adjective, adverb HSK4
original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course

Measure word

  • 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 本 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 本 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 来 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 来 Show the animation
Le caractère 來 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

本

来

These are the forms of 來, the traditional character: 来 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 我去年下决心要到日本来。

    I decided to come to Japan last year.

  • 我本来不想打扰你。

    I didn't mean to disturb you.

  • 我本来应该读一下这本书。

    Of course I should read this book.

  • 我本来想给她打电话的，结果忘了。

    I meant to call her, but I forgot to.

  • 本来这间房间里没有家具。

    The room originally had no furniture.

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