{"id":14798,"date":"2020-03-01T18:16:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/spoken-chinese\/because-in-chinese\/"},"modified":"2020-03-01T18:16:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T18:16:13","slug":"because-in-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/because-in-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Because&#8221; in Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tLearning how to say &quot;because&quot; in Chinese will expand your vocabulary by enabling you to answer questions. The Chinese phrase for &quot;because&quot; is \u56e0\u70ba, in traditional form, or \u56e0\u4e3a in simplified form. Its Mandarin Chinese pinyin is &quot;y\u012bnw&egrave;i.&quot; \u56e0\u70ba \/ \u56e0\u4e3a can also mean owing to, or on account of.<\/p>\n<p>  \tCHINESE CHARACTERS<br \/>  \tThe first character \u56e0 (y\u012bn) means &quot;cause,&quot; or &quot;reason.&quot; The second character \u70ba (w&egrave;i) is defined as: to be; to be; to do; to serve as; to become.<\/p>\n<p>  \tTogether, \u56e0\u70ba \/ \u56e0\u4e3a means &quot;because.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>  \tPRONUNCIATION<br \/>  \t\u56e0\u70ba \/ \u56e0\u4e3a is pronounced as \u25bay\u012bn wei. \u56e0 is in the 1st tone, and \u70ba \/ \u4e3a is in the 4th tone. In terms of tone numbers, \u56e0\u70ba \/ \u56e0\u4e3a can also be written out as: yin1 wei4.<\/p>\n<p>  \tGRAMMAR<br \/>  \t&quot;Because&quot; typically comes at the beginning of Chinese sentences. \u56e0\u70ba \/ \u56e0\u4e3a &#8230; \u6240\u4ee5 (y\u012bn wei&#8230;su\u01d2y\u01d0) is a common sentence structure that means &quot;because&#8230;and so.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>  \tSENTENCE EXAMPLES USING Y\u012aN WEI<br \/>  \tAudio files are marked with \u25ba<\/p>\n<p>  \t\u25baY\u012bn wei t&aacute;i f\u0113ng de gu\u0101n x&igrave;, su\u01d2 y\u01d2u de b\u0101n j\u012b d\u014du q\u01d4 xi\u0101o.<br \/>  \t\u56e0\u70ba\u98b1\u98a8\u7684\u95dc\u4fc2,\u6240\u6709\u7684\u73ed\u6a5f\u90fd\u53d6\u6d88\uff61<br \/>  \t\u56e0\u4e3a\u53f0\u98ce\u7684\u5173\u7cfb,\u6240\u6709\u7684\u73ed\u673a\u90fd\u53d6\u6d88\uff61<br \/>  \tBecause of concerns about typhoons, all flights have been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>  \t\u25baY\u012bn wei ti\u0101n q&igrave; t&agrave;i r&egrave;, su\u01d2 y\u01d0 t\u0101 h\u016bn d\u01ceo le.<br \/>  \t\u56e0\u70ba\u5929\u6c23\u592a\u71b1,\u6240\u4ee5\u5979\u660f\u5012\u4e86\uff61<br \/>  \t\u56e0\u4e3a\u5929\u6c14\u592a\u70ed,\u6240\u4ee5\u5979\u660f\u5012\u4e86\uff61<br \/>  \tShe fainted because of the hot weather.<\/p>\n<p>  \tY\u012bnw&egrave;i w\u01d2 m&eacute;iy\u01d2u sh&agrave;ngk&egrave;, su\u01d2y\u01d0 w\u01d2 m&eacute;iy\u01d2u t\u014dnggu&ograve; k\u01ceosh&igrave;<br \/>  \t\u56e0\u70ba\u6211\u6c92\u6709\u4e0a\u8ab2,\u6240\u4ee5\u6211\u6c92\u6709\u901a\u904e\u8003\u8a66<br \/>  \t\u56e0\u4e3a\u6211\u6ca1\u6709\u4e0a\u8bfe,\u6240\u4ee5\u6211\u6ca1\u6709\u901a\u8fc7\u8003\u8bd5<br \/>  \tI didn&#39;t pass the test because I didn&#39;t study.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3159339816\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning how to say &quot;because&quot; in Chinese will expand your vocabulary by enabling you to answer questions. The Chinese phrase for &quot;because&quot; is \u56e0\u70ba, in traditional form, or \u56e0\u4e3a in simplified form. Its Mandarin Chinese pinyin is &quot;y\u012bnw&egrave;i.&quot; \u56e0\u70ba \/ \u56e0\u4e3a can also mean owing to, or on account of.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2871,2853],"tags":[58,12,40,151,157,114,71],"class_list":["post-14798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brief-intro","category-spoken-chinese","tag-chinese-characters","tag-chinese-pinyin","tag-chinese-sentences","tag-mandarin","tag-mandarin-chinese","tag-pronunciation","tag-vocabulary"],"views":357,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}