Chinese

Verb

乃是

1. (literary) to be none other than
   • c. 1330 - 1400: Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Chapter 7

     袁紹當先趕來，不到五里，只聽得山背後喊聲大起，閃出一彪人馬，為首三員大將，乃是劉玄德、關雲長、張翼德。

     Yuan Shao led the charge in pursuit of the enemy; he had not gone more than five li, when all one could hear was a roar of shouting voices from behind a hill. A group of men and horses came out of nowhere, with three generals in the lead. It was none other than Liu Xuande, Guan Yunchang and Zhang Yide.

Synonyms

• 就是 (jiùshì)