真正 zhēnzhèng▶ real, verdadero

Stroke order

真正 is written in 15 strokes across 2 characters.

• 真 — 10 strokes
• 正 — 5 strokes

Senses

1. genuine; real; true
2. really; indeed

Related words

• 传真Fax
• 正好perfecto, justo
• 正常normal
• 正式formal
• 正确Correcto; corregir
• 正justo; solo; apenas

真正 is pronounced zhēnzhèng and means “real, verdadero”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 真正 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.