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实质

shí zhì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 實質

实质 (shí zhì) means "substance". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 实质 means

1. substance
2. essence

The characters in 实质

• 实shíreal; true; honest
• 质zhìcharacter; nature; quality

Example sentences

• 我们看东西不是看其实质，而是以我们的主观意识看它们的。
  Wǒmen kàn dōngxi bù shì kàn qíshí zhì, érshì yǐ wǒmen de zhǔguān yìshí kàn tāmen de.
  We don't see things as they are, but as we are.
• 南北朝在他们的统治之下失败了的原因是他们让文学的光辉超越了实质内容。
  Nán Běicháo zài tāmen de tǒngzhì zhīxià shībài le de yuányīn shì tāmen ràng wénxué de guānghuī chāoyuè le shízhì nèiróng.
  The reason the Northern and Southern Dynasties had failed in their rule was that they allowed literary splendor to surpass real substance.

Words starting with 实质

• 实质性shí zhì xìngsubstantive; substantial; material
• 实质上shí zhì shàngvirtually; essentially

Sounds the same

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

• 石质stony

Where 实质 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.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shí zhì correctly.
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