| zhēn | really/truly/indeed/real/true/genuine |
| 真 | really truly indeed |
| 真不二价 | to have no second price |
| 真丝 | silk pure silk |
| 真个 | really truly indeed |
| 真中柱 | eustele |
| 真主 | Allah |
| 真主党 | Hezbollah (Lebanon Islamic group) |
| 真书 | regular script same as 楷書|楷书 |
| 真事 | reality veracity the real thing |
| 真亮 | clear |
| 真人 | actual person in the flesh Daoist spiritual master |
| 真人真事 | genuine people and true events |
| 真人秀 | reality show (loanword) |
| 真传 | authentic tradition handed-down teachings or techniques |
| 真伪 | true or bogus |
| 真伪莫辨 | can't judge true or false (idiom); unable to distinguish the genuine from the fake not to know whether to believe (what one reads in the news) |
| 真值表 | truth table |
| 真假 | genuine or fake true or false |
| 真假难辨 | hard to distinguish real from imitation |
| 真凭实据 | reliable evidence (idiom); conclusive proof definitive evidence |