固然 gùrán HSK7 admittedly Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 固然 gùrán admittedly adverb Used to acknowledge a fact before introducing a contrast, often followed by 但 dàn, 但是 dànshì, or 不过 bùguò; admittedly; granted that 体力劳动固然是光荣的，但这是他们那一代人的工作——我们这代人需要做些不同的事情。 tǐlìláodòng gùrán shì guāngróng de, dàn zhè shì tāmen nà yīdài rén de gōngzuò— wǒmen zhè dài rén xūyào zuò xiē bùtóng de shìqing. Manual labor was honorable work, but it was their generation’s work – we had to do something different. originally (literary) originally like this; inherent; natural. no doubt Used to acknowledge a fact while also acknowledging another complementary fact, without a shift in meaning; of course; naturally natural state (literary) the original state or structure of things; inherent nature Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.750 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 11.4 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 6 HSK 3.0 Level 7 Cross-References Same as 固 gù诚然 chéngrán Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
固然 gùrán admittedly adverb Used to acknowledge a fact before introducing a contrast, often followed by 但 dàn, 但是 dànshì, or 不过 bùguò; admittedly; granted that 体力劳动固然是光荣的，但这是他们那一代人的工作——我们这代人需要做些不同的事情。 tǐlìláodòng gùrán shì guāngróng de, dàn zhè shì tāmen nà yīdài rén de gōngzuò— wǒmen zhè dài rén xūyào zuò xiē bùtóng de shìqing. Manual labor was honorable work, but it was their generation’s work – we had to do something different. originally (literary) originally like this; inherent; natural. no doubt Used to acknowledge a fact while also acknowledging another complementary fact, without a shift in meaning; of course; naturally natural state (literary) the original state or structure of things; inherent nature Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.750 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 11.4 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 6 HSK 3.0 Level 7 Cross-References Same as 固 gù诚然 chéngrán Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
