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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
anyway / in any case / to come over from the enemy's side
HSK 3
to correct / to amend / to put right / correction / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
genuine; real; true / really; indeed
HSK 2
just; fair; equitable
HSK 5
(Tw) senior technical specialist (a technical-staff rank in Taiwan's civil service)
to give up evil and return to virtue
to revise; to amend; to rectify
HSK 7-9
to correct / to make right
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *正* | 正* | *正
first month of the lunar year
to stand straight / attention! (order to troops)
upright and honest / integrity
HSK 7-9
adopted name of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
fair and honest
displaying strength and discipline / impressive / upright and frank / square
good will always triumph over evil (idiom)
to have regular features
to mend one's ways (idiom) / to turn over a new leaf
HSK 7-9
to correct / to rectify (e.g. a physical defect such as hearing or vision) / to cure / rectification / correction / to straighten
HSK 7-9
upright / regular / proper / correct
HSK 7-9
Zhang Juzheng (1525-1582), Grand Secretary during the Ming dynasty, credited with bringing the dynasty to its apogee
to transfer to full membership / to obtain tenure
to correct / to amend / to redress (evils)
staunchly honest
to point out mistakes or weak points for correction / to comment / criticism
to proofread and correct
(Tw) to guide sb in the right direction / to correct (behavior etc)
to proofread and correct / to edit and rectify / to correct / to calibrate
honest / upright
minister in charge of the imperial clan
to correct / to make a correction
Yongzheng, reign name of Qing emperor (1722-1735)
pure / unadulterated / (of motives etc) honest
sternly / solemn
to set right / to correct
see 正月
neat / orderly / just in time
(literary and deferential) to solicit comments (on one's writing)
to overcorrect (idiom) / to overcompensate
Lin Fong-cheng (1940-), Taiwanese politician
Chiang Chung-cheng, adopted name of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
to admonish
Wu Guanzheng (1938-), former CCP Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
biased / prejudiced (idiom)
orthodontic treatment / orthodontics
clear and square / neat / square (person)
bring order out of chaos / set to rights things which have been thrown into disorder
Xue Juzheng (912-981), Song historian and compiler of History of the Five Dynasties between Tang and Song 舊五代史|旧五代史
Han Zheng (1954-), senior vice premier of the PRC (2018-)
to proofread and correct
to make a correction
to exchange compliments on New Year's Day
to set sth upright or straight / to promote an employee from part-time to full-time (or from deputy to principal) / (old) to raise from concubine to wife status
square-shaped
Taishō, Japanese era name, corresponding to the reign (1912-1926) of emperor Yoshihito 嘉仁
to return to the right path / to mend one's ways / to reform / Reformed (church etc)
(honorific) your wife
(literary) to follow the right path
upright and honorable
to refute and correct
(polite) please amend my writing
correct (literary) / upright / (hon.) Please point out my shortcomings. / I await your esteemed corrections.


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