原来
Pinyin: yuán lái
originally; it turns out
Example sentence
原来是你啊！
Yuánlái shì nǐ a!
So it was you!
What 原来 means
原来 (yuán lái) is an Chinese word meaning “originally; it turns out”. It belongs to the Grammar Words topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.