其实

其實traditional

HSK 3#405 by frequencyradical 八

qí shí["d"]

actually; in fact; really

Examples

其实没有发生。

It didn't actually happen.

汤姆言过其实。

Tom exaggerated.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.