正儿八经 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 正兒八經 zhèngérbājīng ㄓㄥˋ ㄦˊ ㄅㄚ ㄐㄧㄥ serious earnest real true Character by character 正(zhèng)straight 儿(ér)child 八(bā)eight 经(jīng)surname Jing A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0