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现实

xiàn shí

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 現實

现实 (xiàn shí) means "reality". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 现实 means

1. reality; actuality
2. real; actual
3. realistic; pragmatic; materialistic; self-interested

The characters in 现实

• 现xiànto appear; present; now
• 实shíreal; true; honest

Example sentences

• 现实点！
  Be realistic!
• 那是现实。
  That's the way it is.
• 逃避现实。
  Escape from reality.
• 现实点吧。
  Let's be realistic.
• 感知即现实。
  Gǎnzhī jí xiànshí.
  Perception is reality.
• 我喜欢超现实主义
  I like surrealism.

Words starting with 现实

• 现实主义xiàn shí zhǔ yìrealism
• 现实情况xiàn shí qíng kuàngcurrent state; current situation

Words containing 现实

• 增强现实zēng qiáng xiàn shí(computing) augmented reality; AR
• 超现实chāo xiàn shísurreal; surrealistic
• 超现实主义chāo xiàn shí zhǔ yìsurrealism
• 混合现实hùn hé xiàn shí(computing) mixed reality; MR
• 虚拟现实xū nǐ xiàn shívirtual reality
• 虚拟现实置标语言xū nǐ xiàn shí zhì biāo yǔ yánvirtual reality markup language (VRML) (computing)

Sounds the same

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

• 现时current
• 限时to set a time limit; for a limited time; time-limited

Where 现实 is taught

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

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