名正言順 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 名正言顺 míngzhèngyánshùn ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄓㄥˋ ㄧㄢˊ ㄕㄨㄣˋ 男 女 in a way that justifies the use of the term genuine proper in a way that conforms to logic justifiable appropriate perfectly legitimate Character by character 名(míng)name 正(zhèng)proper 言(yán)words 順(shùn)obey Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0