zhèng

right, proper, correct

HSK 2 #129

DEFINITIONS

正 zhèng
  • straight
  • upright
  • proper
  • main
  • principal
  • to correct
  • to rectify
  • exactly
  • just (at that time)
  • right (in that place)
  • (math.) positive
正 zhēng
  • first month of the lunar year

STROKES

WORDS

风华茂 fēng huá zhèng mào in one's prime
熙 piáo zhèng xī Park Chung-Hee (1917-1979), South Korean military man and dictator, president 1963-1979, influential in developing Korean industry, murdered by his bodyguard
文 zhèng wén main text (as opposed to footnotes); main body (of a book)
歪打着 wāi dǎ zhèng zháo to succeed by a lucky stroke
矫枉过 jiǎo wǎng guò zhèng to overcorrect (idiom); to overcompensate
主义 xiū zhèng zhǔ yì revisionism
教 dōng zhèng jiào Eastern Orthodox Church
数 zhèng shù positive number
版 zhèng bǎn genuine; legal; see also 盜版|盗版[dao4 ban3]
zhuǎn zhèng to transfer to full membership; to obtain tenure
上梁不下梁歪 shàng liáng bù zhèng xià liáng wāi lit. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked (idiom); fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices
不阿 gāng zhèng bù ē upright and plainspoken
fāng zhèng Fangzheng county in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[Ha1 er3 bin1], Heilongjiang; clear and square; neat; square (person)
子 zhèng zǐ positron; also called 正電子|正电子[zheng4 dian4 zi3]
切 zhèng qiē (math.) tangent (trigonometric function)
弦 zhèng xián (math.) sine
房 zhèng fáng central building (in a traditional house); primary wife
本 zhèng běn original (of a document); reserved copy (of a library book)
zhèng zhèng neat; orderly; just in time
经八百 zhèng jīng bā bǎi very serious; solemn
gāng zhèng honest; upright
方方 fāng fāng zhèng zhèng square-shaped
态分布 zhèng tài fēn bù (math.) normal distribution; Gaussian distribution
教 zhèng jiào lit. true religion; orthodox religion; orthodox Christianity; Islam (in the writing of Chinese or Hui theologians)
方体 zhèng fāng tǐ a rectangular parallelepiped