实话 (shíhuà) means Truth (true words). Below are 9 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
我说的都是 实话 。
Wǒ shuō de dōu shì shíhuà.
Everything I said is the truth.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 实话
实话 告诉你，我不同意。
Shíhuà gàosu nǐ, wǒ bù tóngyì.
To tell you the truth, I do not agree.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 实话
他有说 实话 的勇气。
Tā yǒu shuō shíhuà de yǒngqì.
He has the courage to tell the truth.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 勇气
我发誓说的都是 实话 。
Wǒ fāshì shuō de dōu shì shíhuà.
I swear everything I said is true.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 发誓
他不忍心说出那句残忍的 实话 。
Tā bù rěnxīn shuōchū nà jù cánrěn de shíhuà.
He could not bring himself to speak that cruel truth.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 残忍
他说话闪烁其词，不肯说 实话 。
Tā shuōhuà shǎnshuò qí cí, bù kěn shuō shíhuà.
He spoke evasively and would not tell the truth.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 闪烁
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From the graded readers
说 实话 ，我自己也这么想。
shuō shíhuà, wǒ zìjǐ yě zhème xiǎng.
To be honest, I thought the same.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
说 实话 ，我当时并不想参加，是室友帮我报的名。
shuō shíhuà, wǒ dāngshí bìngbù xiǎng cānjiā, shì shì yǒu bāng wǒ bào de / dì míng.
To be honest I didn't want to enter; my roommate signed me up.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
我不敢说自己爱上了跑步——说 实话 ，我到现在也不太喜欢。
wǒ bùgǎn shuō zìjǐ àishàng le / liǎo / liào pǎobù—— shuō shíhuà, wǒ dào xiànzài yěbù tài xǐhuan.
I wouldn't claim to have fallen in love with running — honestly, I still don't much like it.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
Questions about 实话
How is 实话 used in a sentence?
This page shows 9 sentences using 实话 (shíhuà, "Truth (true words)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 实话 an HSK word?
Yes — 实话 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 实话?
The dictionary page for 实话 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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