自然
zì​rán HSK3

nature

自然 zì​rán
nature noun
the physical world including plants, animals, and landscapes

人类应当学会与自然和谐相处。

rén​lèi yīng​dāng xué​huì yǔ zì​rán hé​xié xiāng​chǔ.

Humans should learn to live in harmony with nature.

natural adjective
not artificial or forced; relaxed and normal

他的演技非常自然。

tā de yǎn​jì fēi​cháng zì​rán.

His acting is very natural.

naturally adverb
of course; as a matter of course

你努力学习，自然会取得好成绩。

nǐ nǔ​lì xué​xí, zì​rán huì qǔ​dé hǎo chéng​jì.

If you study hard, you will naturally get good grades.

let things be punctuation
referring to the state of letting things take their own course without interference

既然已经尽力了，剩下的就听其自然吧。

jì​rán yǐ​jīng jìn​lì le, shèng​xià de jiù tīng​qí​zì​rán ba.

Now that you've done your best, let the rest take its course.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
69.4 per million appears in 24% of films
Written text
200.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICTAI-generated definitions
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)