正 zhēng zhèng

1. zhèng adjective upright / straight
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 sv; Mathews 1931 '正', p. 42)
2. zhèng adverb just doing something / just now
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words 虚词
   Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 adv 2; Mathews 1931 '正', p. 43)
3. zhèng verb to straighten / to correct
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 v; Guoyu '正' zhèng v 1; Kroll 2015 '正' zhèng 2; Mathews 1931 '正', p. 43)
4. zhèng adjective main / central / primary
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For example, 正门 'main entrance' (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 1; Guoyu '正' zhèng adj 6; Mathews 1931 '正', p. 42)
5. zhèng adjective fundamental / original
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: As in 正本 original manuscript (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 6; Mathews 1931 '正', p. 43)
6. zhèng adjective precise / exact / accurate
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 2; Unihan '正')
7. zhèng adjective at right angles
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 3)
8. zhèng adjective unbiased / impartial
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 不偏斜 (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 10; Guoyu '正' zhèng adj 2; Kroll 2015 '正' zhèng 1a)
9. zhèng adjective true / correct / orthodox
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 5; Guoyu '正' zhèng adj 4; Kroll 2015 '正' zhèng 1; Mathews 1931 '正', p. 43; Unihan '正')
10. zhèng adjective unmixed / pure
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 精纯 (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 4; Guoyu '正' zhèng adj 3)
11. zhèng adjective positive (charge)
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Physics 物理
    Notes: The opposite of 负 'negative' (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 7; Guoyu '正' zhèng adj 7; Mathews 1931 '正', p. 43)
12. zhèng adjective positive (number)
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Mathematics 数学
    Notes: As in 正数 (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 8; Guoyu '正' zhèng adj 7)
13. zhèng adjective standard
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 11)
14. zhèng adjective chief / principal / primary
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 12; Guoyu '正' zhèng adj 5; Kroll 2015 '正' zhèng 4; Mathews 1931 '正', p. 43)
15. zhèng adjective honest
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 9)
16. zhèng verb to execute / to carry out
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 14)
17. zhèng adverb precisely
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words 虚词
    Notes: For example, 正合时 perfectly timed (ABC 'zhèng' 正 adv 1; Guoyu '正' zhèng adv 1; Kroll 2015 '正' zhèng 5; Mathews 1931 '正', p. 43)
18. zhèng adjective accepted / conventional
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '正' zhèng adj 1; Kroll 2015 '正' zhèng 1b)
19. zhèng verb to govern
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As a variant of 政 (Kroll 2015 '正' zhèng 3)
20. zhèng adverb only / just
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Subdomain: Function Words 虚词
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '正' zhèng 5a)
21. zhēng noun first month
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Of the Chinese lunar calendar, as in 正月 (ABC 'zhēng' 正 adv 1; Guoyu '正' zhēng; Kroll 2015 '正' zhēng 1; Mathews 1931 '正', p. 44)
22. zhēng noun center of a target
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '正' zhēng 2; Mathews 1931 '正', p. 44)

Contained in

• 正如 just as / precisely as
• 正在 in the process of (doing something) ; exactly at a certain position or place
• 公正 just / fair / impartial
• 正式 formal ; official ; final
• 正确(正確) correct / proper
• 真正 real / true / genuine
• 正则(正則) regular ; a standard / a rule ; to change a law
• 正版 legal copy
• 正月 first month of the lunar new year
• 正常 normal / regular
• 正视(正視) to look ahead ; to face squarely / to meet head on
• 正义(正義) justice / righteous / righteousness ; orthodox interepretation of classic texts
• 端正 upright ; to prepare ; regular / proper / correct
• 正反 positive and negative / pros and cons / affirmative-negative
• 正统(正統) orthodox ; Zhengtong ; legitimate / orthodox succession
• 正货(正貨) cash
• 正选(正選) a vote for
• 正合时(正合時) perfectly timed
• 正当行为(正當行為) proper behavior
• 正是四国(正是四國) to make the people of all the world honest
• 正妻 first wife
• 反正 in any event / come what may / whatever happens ; to put things back in order ; now that / since ; to return from the enemy's side ; one opposite and one correct
• 改正 to correct / to amend / to put right
• 纠正(糾正) to correct / to make right
• 正好 to happen to / perfect
• 正方形 a square
• 正直 upright / upstanding / honest / just and straight
• 正反器 flip-flop
• 修正 to revise / to amend
• 正当(正當) timely / just when ; proper / honest ; proper / honest / reasonable / fair / sensible
• 正经(正經) decent / honorable ; proper / serious ; according to standards ; truly / authentic ; normal channels ; Canonical Classics ; orthodox school ; main female character in a novel
• 正面 front ; direct ; the positive side of a problem or condition
• 不正之风(不正之風) unhealthy tendency
• 改邪归正(改邪歸正) to give up evil and return to good
• 更正 to correct / to revise / revised
• 正式实战(正式實戰) official declaration of war
• 正比 direct ratio
• 正规(正規) regular / according to standards
• 正气(正氣) an upright manner ; atmosphere / open air
• 正巧 by chance
• 偏正词组(偏正詞組) an endocentric phrase
• 正文 main text / main body
• 正锋(正鋒) a style of brush work with decoration in transitions between strokes
• 正命 Right Livelihood ; to live an allotted life span

Also contained in

正则表达式 、 正文区 、 八正道 、 正见 、 正思惟 、 正语 、 正业

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• 卷四十四 志第二十四: 職官三 Volume 44 Treatises 24: Government Service 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 314
• 卷七十四 志第五十 職官三 Volume 74 Treatises 50: Official Posts 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 288
• 卷八十八　志第三十八: 　百官四 Volume 88 Treatises 41: Official Posts 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 166
• 卷五十七　志第三十八:　百官三 內命婦 宮人女職 東宮官屬 親王府屬 太后兩宮官屬 大興府 諸京留守司諸京城宮苑提舉等職 按察司 諸路總管府、諸府、諸節鎮、防禦、刺史、縣鎮等職 諸轉運泉谷等職 諸府鎮兵馬等職 諸猛安部族及群牧等職 Volume 57 Treatises 38: Official Posts 3 - Women of the Inner Court; Palace Women with Official Positions; East Palace officials; Prince's Residence Subordinates; Officials of the Empress Dowager's Two Palaces; Daxing Prefecture; Officials in Charge of Offices, Palaces, and Parks in the Capital; Surveillance Commissions; Circuit Inspectors; Prefecture Governments; Town Administration; Defenses; Magistrates; County and Town Officials; Transportation and Grain Officials; Officials in Charge of Military Forces in the Prefectures; Officals in Charge of Pacifying Savage Tribes and Pastoral Peoples History of Jin 金史 — count: 162
• 卷七十二 志第四十八 職官一 Volume 72 Treatises 48: Official Posts 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 149
• 卷八十六　志第三十六: 　百官二 Volume 86 Treatises 39: Official Posts 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 146
• 卷五十六　志第三十七:　百官二 殿前都點檢司 宣徽院 秘書監 國子監 太府監 少府監 軍器監 都水監 諫院 大理寺 弘文院 登聞鼓院 登聞檢院 記注院 集賢院 益政院 武衛軍都指揮使司 衛尉司 戶禮兵刑工部所轄諸司 三路檢察及外路倉庫牧圉等職 Volume 56 Treatises 37: Official Posts 2 - Palace Inspector General, Court of Palace Attendants, Director of the Palace Library, Imperial Academy, Imperial Treasury, Directorate for Imperial Manufacturers, Directorate for Arms, Waterway Inspector, Remonstrance Bureau, Court of Judicial Review, Academy for the Advancement of Literature, Admonishment Drum Court, Admonishment Inspection Court, Notes and Annotation Court, Academy of Scholarly Worthies, Benefits Administration Court, Command of the Military Guard for the Capital, Office for Commandant of Guards, Offices for the Punishment of Ceremonial Guards, Offices for Three Circuits Inspection and Outer Storehouses for Horses History of Jin 金史 — count: 137
• 卷八十七　志第三十七: 　百官三 Volume 87 Treatises 40: Official Posts 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 132
• 卷四十二 志第二十二: 職官一 Volume 42 Treatises 22: Government Service 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 127
• 卷八十五　志第三十五: 　百官一 Volume 85 Treatises 38: Official Posts 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 126

Collocations

• 正卿 (正卿) 並於正卿 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 7
• 先正 (先正) 羣公先正 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧雲漢 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Yun Han — count: 6
• 正曰 (正曰) 木正曰句芒 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 5
• 工正 (工正) 使為工正 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 4
• 火正 (火正) 古之火正 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
• 正舆 (正輿) 萊人使正輿子 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
• 正厥 (正厥) 乃正厥位 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 盤庚下 Shang Shu - Pan Geng III — count: 3
• 马正 (馬正) 季氏以公鉏為馬正 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
• 庶正 (庶正) 鞫哉庶正 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧雲漢 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Yun Han — count: 2
• 正得失 (正得失) 故正得失 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 2