实际
Pinyin: shí jì
actual; practical
Example sentence
实际情况不是这样。
Shíjì qíngkuàng bú shì zhèyàng.
The actual situation is not like this.
What 实际 means
实际 (shí jì) is an Chinese word meaning “actual; practical”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.