然而

HSK 4#1818 by frequencyradical 灬

rán ér["c"]

however; yet; but

Examples

然而，相反的理论往往也是真的。

And yet, the contrary is always true as well.

然而这也算不上什么像样的东西。

But it isn't even worth calling stuff.

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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.