Chinese symbol for “reputable”

正派

zhèng pài

(of a person) upright; respectable; decent; (Tw) (of a business etc) reputable

The closest CC-CEDICT match for reputable is 正派 (zhèng pài), defined as: (of a person) upright; respectable; decent; (Tw) (of a business etc) reputable.

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Characters and stroke order

正 zhèng

straight, right, proper, correct, just, true

radical 77 ⽌ · 5 strokes

派 pài

clique, faction, group, sect

radical 85 ⽔ · 9 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 正派.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
正在	zhèng zài	to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing
真正	zhēn zhèng	genuine; real; true; really; indeed
正式	zhèng shì	formal; official
正常	zhèng cháng	normal; regular
正确 (正確)	zhèng què	correct; sound; right; proper
正是	zhèng shì	is precisely
派出	pài chū	to send; to dispatch
派遣	pài qiǎn	to send (on a mission); to dispatch

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.