(zhěng) - whole, entire, tidy in Mandarin
zhěngTraditional: 整
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
整
Examples
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I have been working the whole day.
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The whole room is very clean.
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He ate an entire cake.
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I waited a whole hour.
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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.
Where this fits
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 整.
Used in
Grammar articles
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