本來 Simplified: 本来 On the HSK 3 vocabulary list, at CEFR level B1. běnlái ㄅㄣˇ ㄌㄞˊ original originally at first it goes without saying of course Where 本來 is used Example sentences and grammar articles using 本來 Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT