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  *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
proof / certificate / identification / testimonial / CL: 個|个 / to prove / to testify / to confirm the truth of
HSK 3
truth / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
the truth about sth; the actual facts
HSK 5
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  *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
to speak the truth / truth to tell / frankly
HSK 6
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
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
real situation / the truth
HSK 7-9
to see what is right and act courageously (idiom, from Analects); to stand up bravely for the truth / acting heroically in a just cause
HSK 7-9
truth
HSK 7-9
to call into question / to question (truth or validity)
HSK 7-9
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
to tell the truth / to tell it as it is
HSK 7-9
to tell the truth / honestly / in fact
HSK 7-9
to be honest / to tell the truth / to be frank
HSK 7-9
to be revealed / to come out (of the truth) / chalk (for whitening walls) / (old) wine cup / (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Comics character Baymax, whose Chinese name is 大白)
to cover / to mask / to cover up or conceal (the truth etc)
to seek the truth
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  *谛* | 谛* | *谛
to examine / truth (Buddhism)
sensible / reasonable / an obvious reason, truth or fact / to understand the reason or reasoning
the actual situation; the truth
to spread falsehoods / to increasingly distort the truth / to pile errors on top of errors (idiom)
Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth
Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie / (fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth / unsolvable case
self-evident truth / (math.) axiom
to comprehend the truth; to become enlightened
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
a flash of realization / the truth in a flash / a moment of enlightenment (usually Buddhist)
the whole truth is revealed (idiom); everything becomes clear
to own up to a fault / to admit the truth / to acknowledge a debt
indisputable statement / unalterable truth
original identity fully revealed (idiom); fig. to unmask and expose the whole truth
lit. to hide the sky with one hand / to hide the truth from the masses
to wake up to reality / to come to oneself / to realize / to see the truth
lit. paper can't wrap fire; fig. the truth will out
to hide the head and show the tail (idiom); to give a partial account / half-truths
refined cream cheese / fig. crème de la crème / nirvana / Buddha nature / Buddhist truth / broth / flawless personal character
words of truth / moral expressed in words / written article explaining a moral
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
unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths)
to realize suddenly / to wake up to the truth / to suddenly awake from sleep
to abandon one's body in the search for Buddha's truth (idiom)
perfectly sound proposition / unalterable truth / irrefutable argument
a wrong repeated becomes right (idiom); a lie or an error passed on for a long time may be taken for the truth
(idiom) to talk in a roundabout way to cover up the truth / evasive
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 cover up the truth on all sides (idiom)
in all honesty / truth to tell
truth, goodness and beauty
Actual practice is the sole criterion for judging truth (item from Deng Xiaoping theory, from 1978)
truth to tell / to be quite honest...
(variant of 真相) the truth about sth; the actual facts
Luduan, mythical Chinese beast able to detect 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 (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
the Four Noble Truths (Buddhism) / see also 四諦|四谛 and 苦集滅道|苦集灭道
the truth / reality
The Moment of Truth (TV show) / Truth or Dare (game)
major principle / general truth / sermon (reproof) / bombastic talk
truth table
to take a deer and call it a horse (idiom); deliberate inversion of the truth
real face fully revealed (idiom); fig. to unmask and expose the whole truth
to report according to the facts / to tell the truth / to tell it like it is
Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth
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
speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths / home truths (that one does not want to hear)
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.
after wine, spit out the truth / in vino veritas
to reveal the truth / to spill the beans
one's body as wood and earth / undecorated / unvarnished (truth)
the unvarnished truth is better than a cunning ruse (idiom) / honesty is the best policy


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