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How to pronounce 其实

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qí其shí实actually; in fact

How to pronounce

in Mandarin Chinese

qí其shí实

actually; in fact

HSK 3

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I feel this temperature is actually quite... quite

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Actually, I don't know.

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ā First toneHigh and level
á Second toneRising
ǎ Third toneLow, then rising in isolation
à Fourth toneFalling
a Neutral toneShort and light

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Definitions adapt CC-CEDICT through HSK 3.0, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Definitions are shortened for study.

Examples include Lock In original sentences and the Tatoeba Project, under CC BY 2.0 France. Chinese text is normalized to simplified characters. Pinyin follows the study dictionary.