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整

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(bound form) whole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole; (before or after number + measure word) exactly; (bound form) in good order; tidy; neat; (bound form) to put in order; to straighten; (bound form) to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb; (dialect) to tinker with; to do sth to

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HSK 3.0
Level 3
Old HSK
Level 4
Strokes
16
Radical
攴 +11
Structure
Top–bottom 上下
Traditional
整
Common rank
#947
Unicode
U+6574

Formation & memory

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How 整 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

敕 meaning “order” + 正 sound ( zhèng )

Components 敕 正

How to remember it

entire · Heisig RSH #1289

束 bundle up + taskmaster + 正 correct

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 整

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
整体数位服务网路 zhěng tǐ shù wèi fú wù wǎng lù Integrated Service Digital Network; ISDN
整体服务数位网路 zhěng tǐ fú wù shù wèi wǎng lù ISDN (integrated services digital network)
整风运动 zhěng fēng yùn dòng Rectification campaign; political purge; cf Mao's 1942-44 campaign at Yanan, and his 1950 …
整形外科医生 zhěng xíng wài kē yī shēng plastic surgeon
整数集合 zhěng shù jí hé (math.) the set of integers
整形外科 zhěng xíng wài kē plastic surgery; orthopedics
重整奥思定会 Zhòng zhěng Ào sī dìng huì Order of Augustinian Recollects, a mendicant Catholic religious order of friars and nuns
整流器 zhěng liú qì rectifier (transforming alternating electric current to direct current)
正整数 zhèng zhěng shù positive integer
浮力调整背心 fú lì tiáo zhěng bèi xīn BCD; Buoyancy Compensation Device (diving)
桥式整流器 qiáo shì zhěng liú qì (electricity) bridge rectifier
整人 zhěng rén (coll.) (malicious) to make things difficult for sb; (mischievous) to play a prank on sb
整地 zhěng dì to prepare the soil (agriculture)
整天 zhěng tiān all day long; whole day
心律不整 xīn lǜ bù zhěng arrhythmia
整体 zhěng tǐ whole; entirety; overall; whole; general; on the whole; overall
平整 píng zhěng smooth; level; to level off; to flatten (remove bumps)
整数 zhěng shù whole number; integer (math.); round figure
整风 zhěng fēng Rectification or Rectifying incorrect work styles, Maoist slogan; cf Rectification campaig…
整理 zhěng lǐ to arrange; to tidy up; to sort out; to straighten out; to list systematically; to collate…

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 正 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
正 sound part zhèng straight, right, proper, correct, just, true
政 zhèng government, politics
症 zhèng ailment, disease, illness
征 zhēng to summon, to recruit; levy, tax; journey; invasion
怔 zhēng frightened, startled, terrified
罡 gāng the stars at the end of the Big Dipper
徵 zhǐ to summon, to recruit; levy, tax; journey; invasion
钲 zhēng an army's marching gong