老实巴交 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 老實巴交 lǎoshibājiāo ㄌㄠˇ ˙ㄕ ㄅㄚ ㄐㄧㄠ docile coll. well-behaved biddable Character by character 老(lǎo)prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity 实(shi)real 巴(bā)Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty 交(jiāo)hand over A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0