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而是
ér​shì HSK4

but rather

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
而是 ér​shì
but rather conjunction
rather; but rather

他不是在偷懒,而是在思考。

tā bù shì zài tōu​lǎn, ér​shì zài sī​kǎo.

He is not being lazy, but rather thinking.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
62.4 per million appears in 25% of films
Written text
177.7 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 4

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)