出于
chū​yú HSK5

out of

出于 出於 chū​yú
out of preposition
to act out of a certain motive, position, or attitude

很多人出于恐惧而推开好伴侣。

hěn​duō rén chū​yú kǒng​jù ér tuī kāi hǎo bàn​lǚ.

Lots of people push away good partners out of fear.

出于好奇，我就同意了。

chū​yú hào​qí, wǒ jiù tóng​yì le.

Out of curiosity, I agreed.

to stem from prepositionverb
to start, proceed, or stem from; to be due to; to originate from

他辞职是出于个人原因。

tā cí zhí shì chū​yú gè​rén yuán​yīn.

He resigned for personal reasons.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
24.2 per million appears in 11% of films
Written text
24.7 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 5

Cross-References

Same as

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)