然而
Pinyin: rán’ér
however; but; yet
Example sentence
尽管他是一周前才开始学中文的，然而他已经认识很多字了。
Jǐnguǎn tā shì yīzhōu qián cái kāishǐ xué Zhōngwén de, rán'ér tā yǐjīng rènshi hěn duō zì le.
Despite the fact that he has only just started learning Chinese, he already knows lots of characters.
What 然而 means
然而 (rán’ér) is a Chinese word meaning “however; but; yet”. It appears in the HSK 4 collection.
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