HSK 5 · Adjectives

天真 tiānzhēn “naive” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 天真 means

  1. naive
  2. innocent
  3. artless

How to say 天真

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale天tiān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale真zhēn1st tone, high and level

天真 in a sentence

  1. 她年轻，天真而又缺乏阅历。

    Tā niánqīng, tiānzhēn ér yòu quēfá yuèlì.

    She’s young, naive and inexperienced.

    Sentence #9965492 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 她有点天真。

    Tā yǒudiǎn tiānzhēn.

    She’s a bit naive.

    Sentence #8714975 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 不要这么天真！

    Búyào zhème tiānzhēn!

    Don’t be so naive!

    Sentence #2411782 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 天真 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 天 (tiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
天tiānday
  • 一one · yī
  • 大big · dà

Memory aidA person 大 with the sky 一 above: sky, heaven, day.

The character 真 (zhēn) with each of its parts in a different colour
真zhēnreally
  • 直straight · zhí
  • 几table · jī

How to write 天真

天 4 strokes · 真 10 strokes

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天真 (tiānzhēn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 天真 (tiānzhēn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 天真

Words with 天

天tiān · day今天jīntiān · today明天míngtiān · tomorrow昨天zuótiān · yesterday天气tiānqì · weather白天báitiān · daytime星期天Xīngqītiān · Sunday聊天liáotiān · to chat夏天xiàtiān · summer冬天dōngtiān · winter

Words with 真

真zhēn · true认真rènzhēn · serious传真chuánzhēn · fax真正zhēnzhèng · genuine真实zhēnshí · true清真qīngzhēn · halal真挚zhēnzhì · sincere真理zhēnlǐ · truth真相zhēnxiàng · the truth

More words: Adjectives

私人sīrén · private坦率tǎnshuài · frank烫tàng · very hot特殊tèshū · special透明tòumíng · transparent突出tūchū · prominent歪wāi · askew完美wánměi · perfect

FAQs

天真 (tiānzhēn) means “naive” or “innocent”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it tiānzhēn: tiān with a 1st tone, then zhēn with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 天真 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tianzhen with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 天真 from the suggestions. Typing tianzhen into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
天真 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.