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坦诚

tǎn chéng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 坦誠

坦诚 (tǎn chéng) means "candid; frank; plain dealing". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 坦诚 means

1. candid
2. frank
3. plain dealing

The characters in 坦诚

• 坦tǎnflat; open-hearted; level
• 诚chéng(bound form) sincere; authentic; (literary) really; truly

Example sentences

• 咱们一起坦诚地谈谈这个问题吧。
  Zánmen yīqǐ tǎnchéng de tántán zhège wèntí ba.
  Let's be frank in this question.
• 简单来说，他的文笔并没有流露出那种对自己的论文充满信心的人应有的直率和坦诚。
  Jiǎndān lái shuō, tā de wénbǐ bìng méiyǒu liúlù chū nàzhǒng duì zìjǐ de lùnwén chōngmǎn xìnxīn de rén yīngyǒu de zhíshuài hé tǎnchéng.
  He does not, in short, write with the candor of a man who is completely confident of his thesis.

Words starting with 坦诚

• 坦诚相见tǎn chéng xiāng jiànto trust one another fully; to treat sb with sincerity

Sounds the same

Read tǎn chéng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 坦承to confess; to admit; to come clean

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tǎn chéng correctly.
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