现实 (xiànshí) means Reality (actuality). Below are 6 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
他是个很 现实 的人。
Tā shì ge hěn xiànshí de rén.
He is a very practical person.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 现实
梦想和 现实 有距离。
Mèngxiǎng hé xiànshí yǒu jùlí.
There is a gap between dreams and reality.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 现实
现实 有时候是冷酷的。
Xiànshí yǒushíhou shì lěngkù de.
Reality is sometimes unfeeling.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 冷酷
靠买彩票发财是不 现实 的。
Kào mǎi cǎipiào fācái shì bù xiànshí de.
Getting rich by buying lottery tickets is not realistic.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 彩票
战争的 现实 比想象中更残酷。
Zhànzhēng de xiànshí bǐ xiǎngxiàng zhōng gèng cánkù.
The reality of war is crueller than one imagines.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 残酷
当年被人不屑一顾的想法，如今成了 现实 。
Dāngnián bèi rén búxièyígù de xiǎngfǎ, rújīn chéng le xiànshí.
An idea once dismissed with contempt has now become reality.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 不屑一顾
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How is 现实 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 现实 (xiànshí, "Reality (actuality)"), 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 现实 an HSK word?
Yes — 现实 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
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The dictionary page for 现实 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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