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老实 (lǎo shi): meaning and stroke order

老实 (lǎo shi) means honest; sincere, well-behaved, naive; gullible.

老实

Simplified
老实
Traditional
老實
Pinyin
lǎo shi

Stroke order of 老实

老

  • lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people)
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

实

  • shí real; true
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 實

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 老实

  1. lǎo shi Traditional 老實
    • honest; sincere
    • well-behaved
    • naive; gullible

Radicals of the characters

老
Radical 老 (Kangxi radical 125) · 6 strokes · 耂 on top, 匕 below
实
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 8 strokes · 宀 on top, 头 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

老实 in our stories

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  • 梁山伯为人老实，始终没有发现祝英台是女的。有同学开玩笑说英台长得太秀气了，他还替“兄弟”生气。

    Liáng Shānbó wéirén lǎoshi shǐzhōng méiyǒu fāxiàn Zhù Yīngtái shì nǚ de yǒu tóngxué kāi wánxiào shuō Yīngtái zhǎng de tài xiùqi le tā hái tì xiōngdì shēngqì

    Honest Liang Shanbo never realised Zhu Yingtai was a woman. When a classmate joked that Yingtai looked too delicate, he even got angry on his "brother's" behalf.

    From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 他又问了死者的妻子。妻子说，丈夫为人老实，从不跟人结仇，只是前几天，有个邻居来借钱，被他拒绝了。

    tā yòu wèn le sǐzhě de qīzi qīzi shuō zhàngfu wéirén lǎoshi cóng bù gēn rén jié chóu zhǐshì qián jǐ tiān yǒu gè línjū lái jiè qián bèi tā jùjué le

    He also questioned the dead man's wife. She said her husband was honest and had never made an enemy; only a few days before, a neighbour had come to borrow money and been refused.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 老实

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).