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HSK
just (in time) / just right / just enough / to happen to / to chance to / by chance / it just so happens that
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *正* | 正* | *正
straight / upright / proper / main / principal / to correct / to rectify / exactly / just (at that time) / right (in that place) / (math.) positive
HSK 1
formal; official
HSK 3
anyway / in any case / to come over from the enemy's side
HSK 3
regular / normal / ordinary
HSK 2
to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing
HSK 1
to correct / to amend / to put right / correction / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
correct; sound; right; proper
HSK 2
is precisely
HSK 2
genuine; real; true / really; indeed
HSK 2
just as / precisely as
HSK 5
just; fair; equitable
HSK 5
justice / righteousness / just / righteous
HSK 5
genuine / legal / see also 盜版|盗版
HSK 5
regular / according to standards
HSK 5
upright / upstanding / honest
HSK 7-9
corrigenda
front / obverse side / right side / positive / direct / open
HSK 7-9
positive charge (electricity)
to give up evil and return to virtue
upstanding person / upright person
to revise; to amend; to rectify
HSK 7-9
abnormal
to correct / to make right
HSK 6
orthodox school / fig. traditional / old school / authentic / genuine
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *正* | 正* | *正
first month of the lunar year
positive energy / positivity
HSK 7-9
unhealthy tendency
HSK 7-9
midday / noon / noonday
positive and negative / pros and cons / inside and outside
sinusoidal (shaped like a sine wave)
to stand straight / attention! (order to troops)
amendment / revised draft
one's proper business
lit. when a man stands straight, he doesn't worry that his shadow is slanting (saying) / fig. as long as one conducts oneself honorably, one need not worry about what people think; a clean hand wants no washing
upright and honest / integrity
HSK 7-9
normal operation / proper functioning
adopted name of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
fair and honest
honest / reasonable / fair / sensible
HSK 6
to enunciate beautifully (in speaking or singing) (idiom)
displaying strength and discipline / impressive / upright and frank / square
upright gentleman / man of honor
(of a person) honorable; not devious / (of a behavior) fair and aboveboard; without tricks; openly / (of a situation) out in the open
(idiom) in deadly earnest; deadpan
unfair competition / illicit competition
solemn in countenance (idiom); strict and unsmiling
good will always triumph over evil (idiom)
positive pole
dishonest / unfair / improper
Kim Jong-un (c. 1983-), third son of Kim Jong-il 金正日, supreme leader of North Korea from 2011
to have regular features
to replace the current name or title of sth with a new one that reflects its true nature / rectification of names (a tenet of Confucian philosophy)
to be honest and upright / to have moral integrity
correction fluid
the Eight-fold Noble Way (Buddhism)
certified goods / quality product / normal product / A-class goods
a person's face as seen from the front
to mend one's ways (idiom) / to turn over a new leaf
HSK 7-9
exactly what one wants
regular script (Chinese calligraphic style)
direct proportionality
(of a person) upright; respectable; decent / (Tw) (of a business etc) reputable
standard form of a Chinese character / (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters
(Tw) beautiful woman / sexy woman
serious / earnest / real / true
positrons and electrons
orthogonality
Zhengtong Emperor, reign name of sixth Ming Emperor Zhu Qizhen 朱祁鎮|朱祁镇 (1427-1464), reigned 1435-1449, temple name Yingzong 英宗
orthodoxy; tradition / orthodox; traditional / principles of dynastic succession / (of an heir) legitimate
your lips say one thing, but your body language reveals what you really think (borrowed from Japanese)
in one's prime
to correct / to rectify (e.g. a physical defect such as hearing or vision) / to cure / rectification / correction / to straighten
HSK 7-9
just at the time of / honest / upright / (math.) positive value
a rectangular parallelepiped
opposition between vital energy 正氣|正气 and pathogeny 邪氣|邪气 (TCM)
first month of the lunar year
to face squarely; to meet head on; to face up to
HSK 7-9
to return to the topic (idiom) / to get back to the main point
goose-step (for military parades)
unofficial; informal
lit. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked (idiom); fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices
Fangzheng, a county in Harbin City 哈爾濱市|哈尔滨市, Heilongjiang
bourgeois tragedy
square
decent / honorable / proper / serious / according to standards
orthoclase KAlSi3O8 (rock-forming mineral, type of feldspar)
Yu Zhengsheng (1945-), PRC politician
revisionism
earnest / authentic
sine wave / simple harmonic vibration
The True Story of Ah Q, influential 1921 novella by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅
hyperbolic sine or sinh (math.)
upright / regular / proper / correct
HSK 7-9
to hit the nail on the head (idiom)
to be just about to / to be on the point of
abnormal / irregular
primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife
New Year's Day in the lunar calendar
improper relationship; illicit relationship

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