It's not what you wear, it's how you wear it.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
而是
rather
IN A VIDEO而是
See this word with its surrounding sentence, pinyin, translation, and timestamp.
DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
rather
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 而是 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 而是 appears in 117 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part.
Poor is not the one who has too little, but the one who wants too much.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 而是.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 而是.
Directly before
- 自己而是1
- 杰作而是1
- 作而是1
- 不到而是1
- 钱而是1
Directly after
- 而是因为15
- 而是在7
- 而是他5
- 而是我5
- 而是由3
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 而是
What does 而是 mean in Chinese?
而是 (érshì) means rather.
How do you pronounce 而是?
而是 is pronounced érshì.
Is 而是 an HSK word?
而是 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
SEE IT IN CONTEXT
Upload a videoTurn your own Chinese video into a searchable learning file.
Keep English optional, place pinyin above Hanzi, and export subtitles named after your video.