真伪莫辨

Traditional form:

真偽莫辨

Pinyin (reading):

zhēnwěimòbiàn

Definitions:

• can't judge true or false (idiom); unable to distinguish the genuine from the fake
• not to know whether to believe (what one reads in the news)

Characters:

• 真 - real, actual, true, genuine
• 伪 - false, counterfeit, bogus
• 莫 - cannot; do not; is not; negative
• 辨 - to recognize, to distinguish, to discriminate

Traditional characters:

• 真 - real, actual, true, genuine
• 偽 - false, counterfeit, bogus
• 莫 - cannot; do not; is not; negative
• 辨 - to recognize, to distinguish, to discriminate