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truth / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *理* | 理* | *理
texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up
HSK 6
proof / certificate / identification / testimonial / CL: 個|个 / to prove / to testify / to confirm the truth of
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *破* | 破* | *破
broken / damaged / worn out / lousy / rotten / to break, split or cleave / to get rid of / to destroy / to break with / to defeat / to capture (a city etc) / to expose the truth of
HSK 3
to speak the truth / truth to tell / frankly
HSK 6
the truth about sth; the actual facts
HSK 5
lit. to hide the sky with one hand / to hide the truth from the masses
to be honest / to tell the truth / to be frank
HSK 7-9
(of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light / (old) wine cup / (coll.) whiting (used in whitewash) / (coll.) (neologism, attested by 2020) healthcare worker in a full-body protective suit (from the white robot Baymax in Disney's "Big Hero 6", called "大白" in Chinese)
truth
HSK 7-9
original identity fully revealed (idiom); fig. to unmask and expose the whole truth
to conceal / to hide (a taboo subject) / to cover up the truth
HSK 7-9
lit. to seek truth from facts (idiom) / fig. to be practical and realistic
HSK 7-9
to awaken / to come to realize / awakened to the truth / the truth dawns upon one / scales fall from the eyes / to become aware
HSK 7-9
self-evident truth / (math.) axiom
(lit.) as the water recedes, the rocks appear (idiom) / (fig.) the truth comes to light
HSK 7-9
to come to oneself / to come to realize / to come to see the truth / to wake up to reality
HSK 7-9
words of truth / moral expressed in words / written article explaining a moral
sensible / reasonable / an obvious reason, truth or fact / to understand the reason or reasoning
to own up to a fault / to admit the truth / to acknowledge a debt
to tell the truth / honestly / in fact
HSK 7-9
truth, goodness and beauty
to tell the truth / to tell it as it is
HSK 7-9
to seek the truth
to spread falsehoods / to increasingly distort the truth / to pile errors on top of errors (idiom)
real situation; the truth / true emotions; true feelings
HSK 7-9
Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth
lit. public opinion is powerful enough to melt metal (idiom) / fig. public clamor can obscure the actual truth / mass spreading of rumors can confuse right and wrong
to call into question; to challenge (the truth or validity of)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) Zhu Yun breaks the railing (Zhu Yun was a Han Dynasty official who accused the emperor's tutor of corruption, and when sentenced to death, clung to the palace hall railing so fiercely while demanding justice that he broke it); (fig.) to speak the truth with unwavering courage; to admonish fearlessly / also pr. [zhu1yun2-she2jian4]
to hide the head and show the tail (idiom); to give a partial account / half-truths
indisputable statement / unalterable truth
Actual practice is the sole criterion for judging truth (item from Deng Xiaoping theory, from 1978)
the actual situation; the truth
the whole truth is revealed (idiom); everything becomes clear
Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie / (fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth / unsolvable case
unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths)
speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths / home truths (that one does not want to hear)
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
major principle / general truth / sermon (reproof) / bombastic talk
to comprehend the truth; to become enlightened
the truth will come out eventually; a secret can't be kept forever
the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), covered by the acronym 苦集滅道|苦集灭道: all life is suffering , the cause of suffering is desire , emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭, the way to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道
truth to tell / to be quite honest...
a flash of realization / the truth in a flash / a moment of enlightenment (usually Buddhist)
Luduan, mythical Chinese beast able to detect the truth
to take a deer and call it a horse (idiom); deliberate inversion of the truth
Aum Shinrikyo (or Supreme Truth), the Japanese death cult responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
the Four Noble Truths (Buddhism) / see also 四諦|四谛 and 苦集滅道|苦集灭道
in all honesty / truth to tell
to report according to the facts / to tell the truth / to tell it like it is
refined cream cheese / fig. crème de la crème / nirvana / Buddha nature / Buddhist truth / broth / flawless personal character
to abandon one's body in the search for Buddha's truth (idiom)
after wine, spit out the truth / in vino veritas
perfectly sound proposition / unalterable truth / irrefutable argument
real face fully revealed (idiom); fig. to unmask and expose the whole truth
the unvarnished truth is better than a cunning ruse (idiom) / honesty is the best policy
to realize suddenly / to wake up to the truth / to suddenly awake from sleep
(idiom) to talk in a roundabout way to cover up the truth / evasive
to wake up to reality / to come to oneself / to realize / to see the truth
to cover / to mask / to cover up or conceal (the truth etc)
to cover up the truth on all sides (idiom)
truth table
one's body as wood and earth / undecorated / unvarnished (truth)
Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth
the truth / reality
lit. the eye cannot see the eyelashes (idiom); fig. unable to see one's own faults / to lack self-awareness / truths too close to home
to reveal the truth / to spill the beans
The Moment of Truth (TV show) / Truth or Dare (game)
a wrong repeated becomes right (idiom); a lie or an error passed on for a long time may be taken for the truth
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *谛* | 谛* | *谛
to examine / truth (Buddhism)
Ministry of Truth, a fictional ministry from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering , the cause of suffering is desire , emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭, the way to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道 / also called 四諦|四谛
If sb has grasped the truth before you, take him as your teacher (Tang dynasty essayist Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈). / We should learn from one who knows the way.
(variant of 真相) the truth about sth; the actual facts


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