整
(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
16 strokes
Dict coverage rank #947 U+6574
How 整 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
敕 (semantic, “order”) + 正 (phonetic, zhèng)
How to remember it
entire · Heisig RSH #1289
束 bundle up + taskmaster + 正 correct
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 正
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 正 (zhèng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 正 sound component | 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 |
Words containing 整
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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… |