正 zhèng
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zhèng
adjective upright / straight
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 sv; Mathews 1931 '正', p. 42) -
zhèng
adverb
just doing something / just now
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 adv 2; Mathews 1931 '正', p. 43) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
zhèng
adjective
precise / exact / accurate
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 2; Unihan '正') -
zhèng
adjective
at right angles
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 3) -
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) -
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') -
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) -
zhèng
adjective
positive (charge)
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Physics
Notes: The opposite of 负 'negative' (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 7; Guoyu '正' zhèng adj 7; Mathews 1931 '正', p. 43) -
zhèng
adjective
positive (number)
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Mathematics
Notes: As in 正数 (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 8; Guoyu '正' zhèng adj 7) -
zhèng
adjective
standard
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 11) -
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) -
zhèng
adjective
honest
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 9) -
zhèng
verb
to execute / to carry out
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 14) -
zhèng
adverb
precisely
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
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) -
zhèng
adjective
accepted / conventional
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '正' zhèng adj 1; Kroll 2015 '正' zhèng 1b) -
zhèng
verb
to govern
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As a variant of 政 (Kroll 2015 '正' zhèng 3) -
zhèng
adverb
only / just
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '正' zhèng 5a) -
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) -
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
- 正能量 positive energy / positivity
- 正立 to stand up straight
- 名正言顺(名正言順) in a way that justifies the use of the term / genuine / proper / in a way that conforms to logic / justifiable / appropriate
- 正午 midday / noon / noonday
- 正派 upright
- 正中下怀(正中下懷) exactly what one wants
- 刚正(剛正) honest / upright
- 正体字(正體字) correct form of a Chinese character
- 清正廉明 upright and honest
- 正当防卫(正當防衛) reasonable self-defense / legitimate defense
- 正旦 starring female role
- 正合时(正合時) perfectly timed
- 正中要害 to hit the nail on the head
- 改邪归正(改邪歸正) to give up evil and return to good
- 正负号(正負號) plus or minus sign ±
- 正己 to correct oneself
- 正邪相争(正邪相爭) progress of disease
- 正骨 bone setting / Chinese osteopathy
- 订正(訂正) to make corrections
- 正规(正規) regular / according to standards
- 修正液 correction fluid
- 忠正 loyal and upright
- 横正暴敛(橫正暴斂) to levy exorbitant taxes
- 正言 frank words
- 正当时(正當時) the right time for something / the right season (for planting cabbage)
- 正教真诠(正教真詮) Exegesis of true religion by Wang Daiyu 王岱輿|王岱舆, a study of Islam
- 正文 main text / main body
- 正切 tangent
- 斧正 please amend my writing
- 正在进行(正在進行) in process
- 正然 in the process of (doing something or happening) / while (doing)
- 正确(正確) correct / proper
- 眼屈光不正 refractive error / refraction error
- 堂堂正正 displaying strength and discipline / impressive / upright and frank / square
- 正式 formal ; official ; final
- 光明正大 (of a person) honorable / not devious / (of a behavior) fair and aboveboard / without tricks / openly
Also contained in
金正恩 、 大正本 、 正法久住 、 正七品 、 摧邪显正 、 卍字正藏 、 正解 、 正遍知 、 无上正觉 、 正说 、 跏趺正坐 、 正法轮身 、 正士 、 正分别 、 阿毘达磨顺正理论
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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: 289
- 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
- 正厥 (正厥) 乃正厥位 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 盤庚下 Shang Shu - Pan Geng III — 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
- 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
- 隧正 (隧正) 叔仲昭伯為隧正 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 2
- 举正 (舉正) 舉正於中 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 2