The Chinese Radical: 真


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Meaning
really, truly    真

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 2
really, truly, indeed, genuine
zhēn
Top: ten 十, bottom: tool 具 (The eye 目 sees on the table a tool.)
What is seen by ten 十 eyes 目 on the table is truely real.  
HSK 4
to fill or stuff, to fill in (a form)
tián
Left: earth 土, right: really, truly 真 (What is seen by ten 十 eyes 目 on the table is truely real.) [tool 具 = The eye 目 sees on the table a tool 具]
(uneven ground is not good) The earth is only real, when it is filled up.  
HSK 5
careful, cautious, prudent
shèn
Left: feeling 忄, right: really, truly 真 (What is seen by ten 十 eyes 目 on the table is truely real.)
As for your feeling for the truth, you should be: careful.  
HSK 6
to press down, to suppress, garrison, small town
zhèn
Left metal 钅/金, right: really, truly 真 (What is seen by ten 十 eyes 目 on the table is truely real.)
(Because of the weight) If the metal is really true, it presses down. (like a garrison)  
HSK 6
apex, top (of the head), to fall forwards, inverted
diān
Left: really, truly 真 (What is seen by ten 十 eyes 目 on the table is truely real.), right: page, leaf, head 页 (=頁 head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)
It is truely the forehead the apex.  
no HSK
convulsions, crazy, mentally deranged
diān
Outside: disease 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick), inside: apex, inverted 颠 (It is truely 真 that the forehead 页 is the apex, where you return/inverte)
The disease, where you "inverte" are the convulsions of a crazy person.  
no HSK
Yunnan province 云南 in southwest China
diān
Left: water 氵, right: really, truly 真 (What is seen by ten 十 eyes 目 on the table is truely real.) [tool 具 = The eye 目 sees on the table a tool]
The water is real in: Yunnan.  
no HSK
to be angry at, to be displeased and annoyed
chēn
Left: mouth 口, right: really, truly 真 (What is seen by ten 十 eyes 目 on the table is truely real.) [tool 具 = The eye 目 sees on the table a tool]
(The feeling of anger is often not fake:) The mouth is truly real when it is angry.  
no HSK
summit
diān
Top: mountain 山, bottom: apex, inverted 颠 (It is truely 真 that the forehead 页 is the apex, where you return/inverte)
The mountain with an apex is: the summit.  

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