Chinese symbol for “upstanding”

正直

zhèng zhí

upright; upstanding; honest

The closest CC-CEDICT match for upstanding is 正直 (zhèng zhí), defined as: upright; upstanding; honest.

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Characters and stroke order

正 zhèng

straight, right, proper, correct, just, true

radical 77 ⽌ · 5 strokes

直 zhí

straight, vertical; candid, direct, frank

radical 109 ⽬ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 正直.

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
一直	yī zhí	straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through
直接	zhí jiē	directly; direct

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.