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Mythic Mandarin

确实 (què shí): meaning and stroke order

确实 (què shí) means indeed, really, reliable, real, true.

确实

Simplified
确实
Traditional
確實
Pinyin
què shí

Stroke order of 确实

确

  • què variant of 確|确[que4]; variant of 埆[que4]
  • què authenticated; solid
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 確

Stroke by stroke

实

  • shí real; true
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 實

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 确实

  1. què shí Traditional 確實
    • indeed
    • really
    • reliable
    • real
    • true

Radicals of the characters

确
Radical 石 (Kangxi radical 112) · 12 strokes · 石 on the left, 角 on the right
实
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 8 strokes · 宀 on top, 头 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

确实 in our stories

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  • 她事先做过功课：原材料这半年确实涨了，但涨幅只有百分之六左右。

    tā shìxiān zuò guò gōngkè yuáncáiliào zhè bàn nián quèshí zhǎng le dàn zhǎngfú zhǐ yǒu bǎi fēn zhī liù zuǒyòu

    She had done her homework: raw materials had indeed risen over the past six months, but only by about six percent.

    From the story A minute of silence HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 确实

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).