conscientious; earnest; serious; to take seriously; to take to heart

to take seriously; serious; No joking, really!

naive; innocent; artless

to fax; a fax; (literary) to portray vividly in painting

to come true

innocent and unaffected; pure and unadulterated

lifelike; true to life; distinctly; clearly

really; as expected; sure enough; if indeed...; if it's really...

a dream come true

serious; meticulous; nitpicky; to take sth (or sb) seriously

to take sth to be true

to pass off as genuine; spurious

to emulate; to simulate; emulation; simulation

to practice Taoism; to cultivate the true self through spiritual exercises

portrait; to describe sth accurately

to lack fidelity; (signal) distortion

Jurchen, a Tungus ethnic group, predecessor of the Manchu ethnic group who founded the Later Jin Dynasty 後金|后金[Hou4 Jin1] and Qing Dynasty

to die (Buddhism); to return to Allah (Islam)

Peng Zhen (1902-1997), Chinese communist leader

true nature; original state; true to one's nature; genuine and unpretentious

Islamic; Muslim; halal (of food); clean; pure

frank and sincere; candid

really; in fact; genuinely; scrupulously

childishness; naivete

(literary) lifelike; realistic; vivid; (Internet slang) used parenthetically to mark the preceding statement as ironic, exaggerated or unserious

see 道真仡佬族苗族自治縣|道真仡佬族苗族自治县[Dao4 zhen1 Ge1 lao3 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]

Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang dynastic Buddhist monk, who crossed to Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism

low fidelity; lo-fi

Temujin, birth name of Genghis Khan 成吉思汗[Cheng2 ji2 si1 han2]

high fidelity; hi-fi

(idiom) to pass off the fake as genuine; to blur the line between fake and real so convincingly that the fake is mistaken for the real thing

to seem almost genuine; easily mistaken for the real thing

variant of 返璞歸真|返璞归真[fan3 pu2 gui1 zhen1]

pretense that turns into reality (idiom); to play at make-believe, but accidentally make it true

see 天真爛漫|天真烂漫[tian1 zhen1 lan4 man4]

false but apparently real

to return to one's true self; to regain the natural state

(acoustics) total harmonic distortion (THD)