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实事求是

shí shì qiú shì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 實事求是

实事求是 (shí shì qiú shì) means "lit. to seek truth from facts (idiom); fig. to be practical and realistic". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 实事求是 means

1. lit. to seek truth from facts (idiom)
2. fig. to be practical and realistic

The characters in 实事求是

• 实shíreal; true; honest
• 事shìmatter; thing; item
• 求qiúto seek; to look for; to request
• 是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true…

Where 实事求是 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shí (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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