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真

zhēn

Traditional: 真

HSK 2
#133 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

really, truly, genuine

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真

Examples

。

You are truly kind.

？

Really?

。

This is real.

。

You are really clever.

。

It is really cold outside.

真 (zhēn) means really, truly, genuine. It is used as a adverb in everyday Mandarin speech.

Related words

非常

extremely, very, unusual

好像

it seems like, apparently, as if

很

very, quite

太

too, excessively

真是

truly is, indeed

Appears in 5 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 真.

真的zhēn dereally, truly; genuine真是zhēn shìtruly is, indeed真正zhēn zhènggenuine, true, real, authentic认真rèn zhēnserious, conscientious, earnest真相zhēn xiàngthe truth, the real situation

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