Back to Dictionary
正
zhèng
1. just (right)
2. main
3. upright
4. straight
5. correct
6. positive
7. greater than zero
8. principle
9. to correct
10. to rectify
HSK 5 Very Common • Top 0% ✏️ 5 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

正
zhèng
straight, right, proper, correct, just, true
HSK 2 5 丶

Compound Words (20)

中正
Zhōngzhèng
posthumous name of Chiang Kai-shek [[蔣介石|蒋介石<JiǎngJièshí>]]
中正
zhōngzhèng
fair and honest
令正
lìngzhèng
Your esteemed number one wife (honorific)
修正
xiūzhèng
to revise
公正
gōngzhèng
just
HSK 6
刚正
gāngzhèng
honest
匡正
kuāngzhèng
to correct
反正
fǎnzhèng
anyway
HSK 5
严正
yánzhèng
sternly
大正
Dàzhèng
Taishō, reign name 1912-1926 of Japanese emperor Yoshihito [[嘉仁]]
宗正
zōngzhèng
Director of the Imperial Clan in imperial China, one of the Nine Ministers [[九卿<jiǔqīng>]]
居正
jūzhèng
(literary) to follow the right path
指正
zhǐzhèng
to point out mistakes or weak points for correction
拨正
bōzhèng
set right
改正
gǎizhèng
to correct
HSK 5
方正
Fāngzhèng
Fangzheng county in Harbin [[哈爾濱|哈尔滨<Hāěrbīn>]], Heilongjiang
方正
fāngzhèng
clear and square
更正
gēngzhèng
to correct
HSK 6
校正
jiàozhèng
to proofread and correct
正中
zhèngzhōng
middle

Alternate Entries

正
zhēng
first month of the lunar year
HSK 5

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
2
Character Frequency Rank
128
Word Frequency Rank
339 of 84,292