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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 實, the traditional character: 实 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他决定不买那个房子了，首先是因为太贵了，其实是因为离他的办公室太远了。
He decided not to buy the house, because in the first place it was too expensive, and in the second place it was too far from his office.
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他虽然号称自己是个社会主义者，但是其实他拥有两套房子还有一辆劳斯莱斯。
He claims to be a socialist, and yet he has two houses and a Rolls Royce.
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其实，书面语我搞得相当好，但是口语中，我经常会记不起来某个字的音调。
I'm actually relatively good at written language, but with spoken language I often can't remember the tone on some word.
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其实，他也爱着她。
In fact, he too loved her.
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其实我工作并不多，但足以让我这周在办公室里忙着了。
I don't have a lot of work, but it's enough to keep me in the office this week.
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我不太喜欢他，其实我讨厌他。
I don't like him much, in fact I hate him.
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我们看东西不是看其实质，而是以我们的主观意识看它们的。
We don't see things as they are, but as we are.
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或许是因为他有胡子而让他乍看之下很可怕，其实他是个非常好的人。
Possibly because he's got a beard, he looks scary at first glance but he's really a kind man.