说老实话 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 說老實話 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. shuōlǎoshihuà ㄕㄨㄛ ㄌㄠˇ ˙ㄕ ㄏㄨㄚˋ to be honest to tell the truth to be frank Character by character 说(shuō)speak 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 话(huà)dialect A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT