真伪莫辨 — Chinese idiom
真伪莫辨
zhēn wěi mò biàn
Traditional: 真偽莫辨
Meaning
- can't judge true or false ; unable to distinguish the genuine from the fake
- not to know whether to believe (what one reads in the news)
Character by character
- 真zhēnreal, actual, true, genuine
- 伪wěifalse, counterfeit, bogus
- 莫mòcannot; do not; is not; negative
- 辨biànto recognize, to distinguish, to discriminate
Idioms sharing a character
- 以假乱真 yǐ jiǎ luàn zhēn
- 千真万确 qiān zhēn wàn què
- 半真半假 bàn zhēn bàn jiǎ
- 天真烂漫 tiān zhēn làn màn
- 弄假成真 nòng jiǎ chéng zhēn
- 情真意切 qíng zhēn yì qiè
- 真刀真枪 zhēn dāo zhēn qiāng
- 真心实意 zhēn xīn shí yì
- 真情实意 zhēn qíng shí yì
- 真凭实据 zhēn píng shí jù
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.