HSK 2 · Adjectives

真 zhēn “true” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 真 means

  1. true, really
  2. truly
  3. indeed
  4. real
  5. genuine

How to say 真

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

真 in a sentence

  1. 天气真好！

    Tiānqì zhēn hǎo!

    The weather is really great!

    Sentence #3537644 from Tatoeba

  2. 你能来我真高兴。

    Nǐ néng lái wǒ zhēn gāoxìng.

    I’m really glad you’re here.

    Sentence #3671241 from Tatoeba

  3. 真好吃。

    Zhēn hǎochī.

    It’s really delicious.

    Sentence #5611611 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

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

How to write 真

真 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 真

Words with 真

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

More words: Adjectives

红hóng · red新xīn · new忙máng · busy错cuò · wrong非常fēicháng · extremely最zuì · most晴qíng · sunny阴yīn · cloudy

FAQs

真 (zhēn) means “true, really” or “truly”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it zhēn: zhēn with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 真 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhen with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 真 from the suggestions. Typing zhen into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
真 is an HSK 2 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.