Learn Chinese – Learn Mandarin — How to say ” She has the heart of a child” in Chinese: 她有赤子之心。 Ta1 you3 chi4 zi3 zhi1 xin1.

Learn Chinese – Learn Mandarin — How to say ” She has the heart of a child” in Chinese: 她有赤子之心。 Ta1 you3 chi4 zi3 zhi1 xin1.  Ta1 ( 她 she) you3 (有 verb, has) chi4 zi3 (赤子 child) zhi1 (之 the classic word for de5, a particle to connect the attributes and the noun) xin1(心 heart).  赤子 chi4 zi3 originally means red child (chi3 means red, zi3 means child). When a baby was born, the body usually is reddish. Thus, chi4 zi3 means the truest child, the purest child. Some words you might want to know about child:  天真 （tian1 zhen1， naive）, chun2 jie2 （纯洁， pure), and 善良（shan4 liang2 kind-hearted).