老实 lǎoshi▶ trung thực, thật thà

Stroke order

老实 is written in 14 strokes across 2 characters.

• 老 — 6 strokes
• 实 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. honest; sincere
2. well-behaved
3. naive; gullible

Related words

• 事实Sự thật; Thực tế
• 实习Thực tập
• 实现Sự nhận ra, sự thực hiện
• 实用Thực tế, thiết thực
• 实话Sự thật
• 实践thực hành; tập quán

老实 is pronounced lǎoshi and means “trung thực, thật thà”. It belongs to the HSK 5 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 老实 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.