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老实

lǎo shi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 老實

老实 (lǎo shi) means "honest; sincere". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 老实 means

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

The characters in 老实

• 老lǎoprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of…
• 实shíreal; true; honest

Example sentences

• 我是个老实人。
  I'm an honest person.
• 我觉得她很老实。
  Wǒ juéde tā hěn lǎoshi.
  I think that she's honest.
• 我当他是老实人。
  I took him to be an honest man.
• 他看起来忠厚老实。
  He looks like an honest man.
• 老实说，他被炒了。
  Not to mince words, he got fired.
• 你看起来像个老实人。
  You seem to be an honest man.

Words starting with 老实

• 老实说lǎo shí shuōhonestly speaking; to be frank, ...
• 老实巴交lǎo shi bā jiāo(colloquial) docile; well-behaved; biddable

Words containing 老实

• 说老实话shuō lǎo shi huàto be honest; to tell the truth; to be frank

Sounds the same

Read lǎo shi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 老是always

Where 老实 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Personal Qualities & Character (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 lǎo shi correctly.
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