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We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「原來如此」, with its usage explained below.

The idiom 「原來如此」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

It turns out: means to discover the true situation. So that’s how it is.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yuán lái rú cǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yun4 loi4 yu4 chi2

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