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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 实事求是

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
实事求是 shí shì qiú shì - lit. to seek truth from facts (idiom)
- fig. to be practical and realistic

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
6 9 30,903 8,555 20,923

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
shí- real
- true
- honest
- really
- solid
- fruit
- seed
- definitely
shì- matter
- thing
- item
- work
- affair
- CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]
qiú- to seek
- to look for
- to request
- to demand
- to beseech
shì- to be (followed by substantives only)
- correct; right; true
- (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
- (adverb for emphatic assertion)
shì- variant of 是[shi4]

Other Words Containing 实事求是

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
实事求是 6 9 30,903 8,555 20,923