shuō​shí​huà HSK6

to tell the truth

说实话 說實話 shuō//shí​huà
to tell the truth verb + noun
to speak the truth

Do you believe that he is telling the truth?

frankly verbadverb
used as a sentence starter to indicate honesty; to be honest; frankly speaking

Honestly, I really don’t like reading.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
45.7 per million appears in 19% of films

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 6

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CH