正 zhèng zhēng

1. zhèng adjective upright / straight
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 sv)
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)
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)
4. zhèng bound form main / central
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Position 位
   Notes: For example, 正门 'main entrance' (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 1; Guoyu '正' zhèng adj 6)
5. zhèng adjective fundamental
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 6)
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; 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)
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
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 bf 12; Guoyu '正' zhèng adj 5; Kroll 2015 '正' zhèng 4)
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: (ABC 'zhèng' 正 adv 1; Guoyu '正' zhèng adv 1; Kroll 2015 '正' zhèng 5)
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)
22. zhēng noun center of a target
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '正' zhēng 2)

Contained in

• 正如 just as / precisely as
• 正在 in the process of (doing something)
• 公正 just / fair / impartial
• 正式 formal / official
• 正确(正確) correct / proper
• 真正 real / true / genuine
• 正则(正則) regular ; regular
• 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 ; notes on historic texts
• 公正处(公正處) public notary office
• 端正 upright / regular / proper / correct ; to rectify
• 正反 positive and negative / pros and cons / affirmative-negative
• 正统(正統) orthodox ; Zhengtong ; legitimate / orthodox succession
• 反正 in any event / come what may / whatever happens ; to put things back in order
• 改正 to correct / to amend / to put right
• 纠正(糾正) to correct / to make right
• 正好 to happen to
• 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 ; honest / reasonable / fair / sensible
• 正经(正經) decent / honorable / proper / serious / according to standards
• 正面 front ; positive / direct / open ; to face 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
• 正比 direct ratio
• 正规(正規) regular / according to standards
• 正气(正氣) a healthy environment
• 正巧 by chance
• 偏正词组(偏正詞組) an endocentric phrase
• 正文 main text / main body
• 正命 Right Livelihood ; to live a normal life span
• 转正(轉正) to obtain full membership / to obtain tenure

Also contained in

正则表达式 、 正文区 、 八正道 、 正锋 、 正见 、 正思惟 、 正语 、 正业 、 正精进 、 正念 、 正定 、 四正勤 、 雍正

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Truncated for common words

• 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: 290
• 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: 155
• 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: 148
• 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
• 卷八十四　志第三十四: 　選舉四 Volume 84 Treatises 37: Selection of Officials 4 History of Yuan 《元史》 — count: 131
• 卷五十五　志第三十六:　百官一 三師 三公 尚書省 六部 都元帥府 樞密院 大宗正府 御史臺 宣撫司 勸農使司 司農司 三司 國史院 翰林學士院 審官院 太常寺 Volume 55 Treatises 36: Official Posts 1 - Three Masters, Three Ducal Ministers, Imperial Secretariat, Six Ministers, Head of the Capital and Commanders of the Prefectures, Bureau of Military Affairs, Ministry of Rites, Office of the Censor, Conciliation Commission, Office for Promoting Agriculture, Board of Agriculture, Three Offices, History Office, Hanlin Imperial Academy, Bureau of Personnel Evaluation, Court of Imperial Sacrifices History of Jin 《金史》 — count: 130

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
• 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
• 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
• 正人 (正人) 凡厥正人 — Book of Documents 《尚書》, 周書 洪範 Zhou Shu - Great Plan — 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