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整

zhěng

orderly

Phonosemantic compound. 敕 represents the meaning and 正 represents the sound.

Components
敕 meaning component

敕  Meaning component

chì

  

an imperial order or decree

正 sound component

正  Sound component

zhèng, zhēng

  

correct

Evolution

整 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
整 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
整 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
整 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
整 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

整  

zhěng

orderly, neat, tidy; whole; exactly; in good order; complete; entire; in order; orderly; to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb

Most common words with 整
Freq.
Word
Meaning

整个

whole

整

exactly

调整

to adjust

整体

whole entity

整理

to arrange

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*teŋʔ

tsyengX

zhěng

arrange; orderly


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 84.1422% of movies

390th most common character in movies

416th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+6574

Shuowen

“整，齊也。从攴，从束，从正。正亦聲。”


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