实

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real; true; honest; really; solid; fruit; seed; definitely

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Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

Components 宀头

reality · Heisig RSH #857

house + bust

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
有名无实	yǒu míng wú shí	lit. has a name but no reality (idiom); exists only in name; nominal
事实上	shì shí shàng	in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto
实力主义	shí lì zhǔ yì	meritocracy
实利主义	shí lì zhǔ yì	utilitarianism
不实	bù shí	untrue; false; unfounded; (literary) (of a plant) to not bear fruit
子实	zǐ shí	variant of 籽實\|籽实[zi3 shi2]
实物教学	shí wù jiào xué	object lesson
实心	shí xīn	sincere; solid
实地	shí dì	on-site
实行	shí xíng	to implement; to carry out; to put into practice
实用主义	shí yòng zhǔ yì	pragmatism
实体	shí tǐ	entity; substance; thing that has a material existence (as opposed to a conceptual, virtua…
实业家	shí yè jiā	industrialist
实体书	shí tǐ shū	physical book
老实巴交	lǎo shi bā jiāo	(coll.) docile; well-behaved; biddable
军事实力	jūn shì shí lì	military strength; military power
实力	shí lì	strength
实利	shí lì	advantage; gain; net profit
实物	shí wù	material object; concrete object; original object; in kind; object for practical use; defi…
平实	píng shí	simple and unadorned; plain; (of land) level; even