原本
Pinyin: yuánběn
originally; the original; original copy; original version
Example sentence
我原本是不需要给花浇水的,我刚浇完就下雨了。
Wǒ yuánběn shì bù xūyào gěi huā jiāoshuǐ de, wǒ gāng jiāo wán jiù xiàyǔ le.
I need not have watered the flowers. Just after I finished it started raining.
What 原本 means
原本 (yuánběn) is an Chinese word meaning “originally; the original; original copy; original version”. It appears in the HSK 6 collection.