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天真

tiān zhēn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

天真 (tiān zhēn) means "naive". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 天真 means

1. naive
2. innocent
3. artless

The characters in 天真

• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 真zhēnreally; truly; indeed

Example sentences

• 她有点天真。
  She's a bit naive.
• 你太天真了。
  You're so naive.
• 不要这幺天真！
  Don't be so naive!

Words starting with 天真

• 天真烂漫tiān zhēn làn màn(idiom) innocent and unaffected

Where 天真 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Youth, Adolescence & Naivety (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tiān zhēn correctly.
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