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The Cantonese word jyun jan - 原因 - jyun4 jan1
(reason in Cantonese)





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Romanization (Jyutping)

jyun4 jan1

English translations

reason,
cause, root cause, origin, wherefore

Chinese characters:

原因
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原因 (jyun4 jan1) is composed of these characters: 原, 因
The traditional Chinese characters of jyun4 jan1 are identical with the modern (simplified) characters displayed above.

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original  |  because
原因 ( jyun jan / jyun4 jan1 ) belongs to the 1000 most common composed words in Chinese language (rank 623)
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