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(zhěng) - whole, entire, tidy in Mandarin

zhěng

Traditional: 整

Line drawing of 整
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Translation

whole, entire, tidy

Word origin

An ideographic compound: 敕 (chì, to put in order) over 正 (zhèng, correct or upright), giving the sense of making something whole, orderly and tidy.

Origin
ideographic
Root
敕 (chì, to put in order) + 正 (zhèng, correct)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 整

Examples

I have been working the whole day.

The whole room is very clean.

He ate an entire cake.

I waited a whole hour.

He slept the whole day.

整 (zhěng) means whole or entire. It commonly appears in 整个 (zhěng gè), the whole, and as a degree intensifier meaning the full of something.

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 整.

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This word is part of lesson 105.