实

real, solid

No. 97 most used

How it's built

• 宀roof
• 头head

A way to remember it

A head (头) under your own roof (宀): real and solid.

Words

• 其实

  qí shí

  actually; in fact; really
• 确实

  què shí

  indeed; really; reliable
• 事实

  shì shí

  fact; CL:个
• 事实上

  shì shí shàng

  in fact; in reality; actually
• 实在

  shí zài

  really; actually; indeed
• 实际上

  shí jì shàng

  in fact; in reality; as a matter of fact

Sentences

• 你该把事实说出来。

  nǐ gāi bǎ shì shí shuō chū lái

  You should tell the truth.
• 其实他没去过美国。

  qí shí tā méi qù guò měi guó

  He hasn't actually been to America.
• 其实，他也爱着她。

  qí shí tā yě ài zhe tā

  In fact, he too loved her.
• 事实上他并不是主管。

  shì shí shàng tā bìng bú shì zhǔ guǎn

  He is actually not the manager.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.