Chinese symbol for “naive”
天真
tiān zhēn
naive; innocent; artless
The closest CC-CEDICT match for naive is 天真 (tiān zhēn), defined as: naive; innocent; artless.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “naive”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 老实 (老實) | lǎo shi | honest; sincere; well-behaved |
| 憨 | hān | silly; simple-minded |
| 素朴 (素樸) | sù pǔ | simple; unadorned |
| 涉世未深 | shè shì wèi shēn | unpracticed; inexperienced |
| 不知轻重 (不知輕重) | bù zhī qīng zhòng | lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things; naive |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 天真.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 今天 | jīn tiān | today; the present time; now |
| 每天 | měi tiān | every day |
| 明天 | míng tiān | tomorrow |
| 几天 (幾天) | jǐ tiān | several days |
| 昨天 | zuó tiān | yesterday |
| 天下 | tiān xià | land under heaven; the whole world |
| 真的 | zhēn de | really; truly; indeed; real; true; genuine |
| 真正 | zhēn zhèng | genuine; real; true; really; indeed |
See also: Japanese symbol for “naive”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.