実際
Kana: じっさい
actual; practical
Example sentence
実際の状況は違います。
じっさいのじょうきょうはちがいます。
The actual situation is different.
What 実際 means
実際 (じっさい) is an Japanese word meaning “actual; practical”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 3 (and again in Level 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.