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Mythic Mandarin

既然 (jì rán): meaning and stroke order

既然 (jì rán) means since; as; this being the case.

既然

Simplified
既然
Traditional
既然 (same form)
Pinyin
jì rán

Stroke order of 既然

既

  • jì already; since
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

然

  • rán correct; right
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 既然

  1. jì rán
    • since; as; this being the case

Radicals of the characters

既
Radical 无 (Kangxi radical 71) · 9 strokes
然
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 12 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

既然 in our stories

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  • 既然那天根本没有风浪，船沉的原因就只可能在船本身。

    jìrán nà tiān gēnběn méiyǒu fēnglàng chuán chén de yuányīn jiù zhǐ kěnéng zài chuán běnshēn

    Since there had been no storm at all, the cause of the sinking could only lie in the ship itself.

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 既然

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).