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HSK 6 Connectors & compound sentences

为此

For this reason / to this end (为此)

Structure … (prior fact / goal),为此 + action taken

为此 (wèicǐ) is an anaphoric written-register connector: the 此 ("this") picks up what was just said, and 为此 frames it as the cause or purpose of what follows — "for this reason / to this end". 他想出国,为此努力学了三年英语 = "he wanted to go abroad; to that end he studied English hard for three years". It covers two shades depending on context: purpose ("in order to achieve that") and cause ("as a result of that"). Here 为 is read wèi (fourth tone), not wéi. It is the formal, condensed equivalent of 为了这个 or 因为这个; it opens the second clause and is usually followed by an action verb.

Examples

  • 他tā想xiǎng出chū国guó,为wèi此cǐ努nǔ力lì学xué了le三sān年nián英yīng语yǔ。

    He wanted to go abroad; to that end he studied English hard for three years.

  • 公gōng司sī业yè绩jì下xià滑huá,为wèi此cǐ召zhào开kāi了le紧jǐn急jí会huì议yì。

    The company's results declined; for this reason an emergency meeting was called.

  • 他tā立lì志zhì从cóng医yī,为wèi此cǐ付fù出chū了le多duō年nián努nǔ力lì。

    He resolved to become a doctor and, to that end, put in many years of effort.

  • 此cǐ事shì影yǐng响xiǎng重zhòng大dà,特tè为wèi此cǐ致zhì歉qiàn。

    The matter has great impact; we hereby offer our apologies for it.

Levels are indicative: they follow the standard Chinese Grammar Wiki (AllSet Learning) progression, not an official HSK 3.0 mapping. We never assign levels by eye.

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