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实际上

shí jì shàng

HSK 3.0 level 4 3-character word Traditional 實際上

实际上 (shí jì shàng) means "in fact; in reality; as a matter of fact". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 实际上 means

1. in fact
2. in reality
3. as a matter of fact
4. in practice

The characters in 实际上

• 实shíreal; true; honest
• 际jìborder; edge; boundary
• 上shàng(bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb…

Example sentences

• 实际上我错了。
  Actually, I was wrong.
• 实际上没有那么难。
  It's actually not that difficult.
• 你实际上想说什幺？
  What do you really want to say?
• 实际上，我非常无聊。
  Actually, it was pretty boring.
• 实际上他根本没有去考试。
  The fact is that he didn't even take the exam.
• 这个男孩实际上是要去做。
  The boy actually was going to do it.

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shí jì shàng correctly.
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