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事实

shì shí

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 事實 Measure word 个

事实 (shì shí) means "fact". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 事实 means

1. fact

The characters in 事实

• 事shìmatter; thing; item
• 实shíreal; true; honest

Example sentences

• 事实上。
  Actually.
• 这是事实。
  It's the truth.
• 这倒是事实。
  That’s actually the truth.
• 我知道事实。
  I know the facts.
• 我忽略了事实。
  I overlooked the truth.
• 事实显而易见。
  The facts are clear.

Words starting with 事实

• 事实上shì shí shàngin fact; in reality; actually
• 事实根据shì shí gēn jùfactual basis
• 事实婚shì shí hūncommon-law marriage; de facto marriage
• 事实婚姻shì shí hūn yīnde facto marriage; common-law marriage
• 事实胜于雄辩shì shí shèng yú xióng biànfacts speak louder than words (idiom)

Words containing 事实

• 军事实力jūn shì shí lìmilitary strength; military power
• 既成事实jì chéng shì shífait accompli
• 摆事实讲道理bǎi shì shí jiǎng dào lǐpresent the facts and reason things out

Sounds the same

Read shì shí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 适时timely; apt to the occasion; in due course

Where 事实 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Practice, Implementation & Achievement (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shì shí correctly.
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