HSK 3.0 Level 4 · Adjectives

整 zhěng “whole” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 整 means

  1. whole
  2. complete
  3. exactly (o’clock)
  4. (bound form) whole
  5. entire
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (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

How to say 整

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale整zhěng3rd tone, dipping

整 in a sentence

  1. 现在四点整。

    Xiànzài sì diǎn zhěng.

    It’s now exactly four o’clock.

    Sentence #2041418 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他把整个苹果都吃了。

    Tā bǎ zhěnggè píngguǒ dōu chī le.

    He ate the whole apple.

    Sentence #7774356 from Tatoeba

  3. 昨天我一整天都在工作。

    Zuótiān wǒ yì zhěng tiān dōu zài gōngzuò.

    Yesterday I spent the whole day working.

    Sentence #1423381 from Tatoeba

How 整 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 整 (zhěng) with each of its parts in a different colour
整zhěngwhole; complete; entire; whole; exactly
  • 敕an imperial order or decree · chìMeaning part
  • 正straight · zhēngSound part

敕 hints at the meaning (an imperial order or decree); 正 (zhēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhěng.

How to write 整

整 16 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

整 (zhěng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 整 (zhěng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 整

Words with 整

整理zhěnglǐ · to arrange调整tiáozhěng · to adjust完整wánzhěng · complete整齐zhěngqí · orderly整体zhěngtǐ · whole整个zhěnggè · whole整顿zhěngdùn · to rectify

More words: Adjectives

准确zhǔnquè · accurate仔细zǐxì · careful美měi · beautiful强qiáng · strong暗àn · dark薄báo · thin宝贵bǎoguì · valuable悲观bēiguān · pessimistic

FAQs

整 (zhěng) means “whole” or “complete”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it zhěng: zhěng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 整 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zheng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 整 from the suggestions. Typing zheng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
整 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 6 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.