虽然

雖然traditional

HSK 2#440 by frequencyradical 虫

suī rán["c"]

although; even though (often used correlatively with 是 or 是 etc)

Examples

他虽然穷，却很幸福。

Even though he's poor, he's happy.

虽然我没在火车上睡觉。

Although I haven't slept on the train.

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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.