老实
Meaning
- honest; sincere
- well-behaved
- naive; gullible
Example sentence
我是个老实人。
I'm an honest person.
Characters in 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
- 实 shí solid; real, actual
老 here plain plus 实, real. Plain and real, hence honest — and of a child, well-behaved.