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HSK
cause / origin / root cause / reason / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *囙* | 囙* | *囙
old variant of
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *因* | 因* | *因
cause / reason / because
HSK 6
gene (loanword)
HSK 7-9
affliction
heroin (loanword)
cause of disease / pathogen
cause / factor / cause of formation
caffeine (loanword)
cause / a factor (leading to an effect)
cocaine (loanword)
main reason
(loanword) lidocaine
antecedents
Klein or Kline (name) / Felix Klein (1849-1925), German mathematician
(loanword) dyne
Des Moines, capital of Iowa
Stein (name) / Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), Hungarian-born British archaeologist known for his expeditions to Central Asia
simply because / all because
cause / triggering factor / incentive / inducement
cause / origin
codeine (loanword)
to reverse cause and effect / to put the horse before the cart
(idiom) to slavishly follow old patterns; to stick to outdated conventions
Lewin (name) / Kurt Lewin (1890-1944), German-American psychologist of the Gestalt school known for his field theory of behavior
Saddam Hussein
immediate cause / proximate cause
(loanword) meme
motivation / moving force / underlying force / agent
indirect cause / remote cause
cause of death
decaffeinated / decaf
genetic modification
allele (one of two paired gene in diploid organism)
meme (loanword)
Husain or Hussein (name) / Hussein (c. 626-680), Muslim leader whose martyrdom is commemorated at Ashura / Saddam Hussein al Tikriti (1937-2006), dictator of Iraq 1979-2003
Calvin Klein CK (brand)
(Buddhism) good karma
(loanword) combine (i.e. combine harvester)
(HK) Des Moines, capital of Iowa
procaine (nerve blocking agent) (loanword)
to attribute; to ascribe
wind does not come from an empty cave without reason / there's no smoke without fire (idiom)
Maine, US state
decaffeinated / decaf / see also 無咖啡因|无咖啡因
(formal) whereas / since
recessive gene
dominant gene


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