名副其实 (míng fù qí shí)

Character breakdown

• 名 (míng) · 6 strokes

  Depicts a mouth (口) saying their own name at night (夕) when it is too dark for others to see them.

• 副 (fù) · 11 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 畐 represents the sound.

• 其 (qí) · 8 strokes

  Pictograph of a basket, now written as 箕. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

• 实 (shí) · 8 strokes

  Simplified form of 實. Depicts a string of money (貫) under a roof (宀). Based on the original meaning "rich; plentiful". The meaning later expanded to "solid", "fruit", and "true". The 貫 component was…

Usage

他是一位名副其实的专家。

not just in name only, but also in reality (idiom); aptly named; worthy of the name

tā shì yī wèi míng fù qí shí de zhuān jiā 。