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实际

shí jì 2–4

reality; practice; practical; realistic; real; actual

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
实 · 际
Syllables
2
shí jì
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,981

Part of speech: n,a,ad

Character by character

  • 实shí8 strokesHSK 2 traditional 實real, true; honest, sincere
  • 际jì7 strokesHSK 2 traditional 際border, boundary, juncture

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 实际上我错了。

    Shí jì shàng wǒ cuò le

    Actually, I was wrong.

  • 我实际并不知道。

    Wǒ shí jì bìng bù zhī dào

    I actually never knew that.

  • 你实际上想说什么？

    Nǐ shí jì shàng xiǎng shuō shén me

    What do you really want to say?

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 实际. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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