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而是

ér shì
HSK 2.0 Level 4 HSK 3.0 Level 4 Conjunction Common

Definitions

  1. 1. rather

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HSK 2.0 Level 4+ HSK 3.0 Level 4+ 6 min
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Child Words of 而是

是
shì

to be (followed by substantives only)

而
ér

and