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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
correct; sound; right; proper
HSK 2
regular / normal / ordinary
HSK 2
to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing
HSK 1
is precisely
HSK 2
just as / precisely as
HSK 5
justice / righteousness / just / righteous
HSK 5
regular / according to standards
HSK 5
genuine / legal / see also 盜版|盗版
HSK 5
regular education
upright / upstanding / honest
HSK 7-9
front / obverse side / right side / positive / direct / open
HSK 7-9
upstanding person / upright person
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
standard form of a Chinese character / (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters
midday / noon / noonday
positive and negative / pros and cons / inside and outside
sinusoidal (shaped like a sine wave)
regular (figure in geometry)
to face squarely; to meet head on; to face up to
HSK 7-9
main job / day job / steady full-time job (as opposed to temporary or casual) / chief or principal post (as opposed to deputy)
one's proper business
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
honest / reasonable / fair / sensible
HSK 6
normal operation / proper functioning
(of a train etc) on time; punctual / (slang) awesome / (Tw) on the hour
regular army / standing army
decent / honorable / proper / serious / according to standards
upright gentleman / man of honor
exactly what one wants
positive correlation
pilot-in-command; captain (cf. 副駕駛|副驾驶, copilot)
a person's face as seen from the front
formal dress
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)
certified goods / quality product / normal product / A-class goods
regular script (Chinese calligraphic style)
head-on / red-handed
direct proportionality
(of a person) upright; respectable; decent / (Tw) (of a business etc) reputable
(Tw) beautiful woman / sexy woman
true or false? / correct or incorrect / to correct errors (in a document)
orthogonality
corrigenda
healthy atmosphere; moral spirit / unyielding integrity; probity / (TCM) vital energy (resistance to diseases)
just at the time of / honest / upright / (math.) positive value
earnest / authentic
regular expression (computing)
bourgeois tragedy
two-way / reversible / both sides of the coin
opposition between vital energy 正氣|正气 and pathogeny 邪氣|邪气 (TCM)
a rectangular parallelepiped
first month of the lunar year
goose-step (for military parades)
(political) legitimacy
solemn in countenance (idiom); strict and unsmiling
Zhengning, a county in Qingyang City 慶陽市|庆阳市, Gansu
square
reasonable self-defense / legitimate defense
(Tw) sanctimonious person / self-appointed moral arbiter
to come at the right time / to be opportune
sine wave / simple harmonic vibration
to hit the nail on the head (idiom)
regular polyhedron
to be just about to / to be on the point of
positive ion / cation (physics)
primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife
normal fault (geology)
New Year's Day in the lunar calendar
positive and negative
facing directly (with one's eyes) / (to look sb) in the eyes
forward (direction) / positive (thinking, mood, values etc)
to correct an erroneously written character / regular script (calligraphy) / standard form (of a character or spelling)
standard pronunciation / to correct sb's pronunciation
the right track
pilot and copilot
(lit. and fig.) the right way; the correct path; the proper course
starring female role in a Chinese opera
microbiome / microbiota
positive number
see 正路
lit. true religion / orthodox religion / orthodox Christianity / Islam (in the writing of Chinese or Hui theologians)
forward direction / (math.) positive direction
starring male role in a Chinese opera
the right time for sth / the right season (for planting cabbage)
correct line (i.e. the party line)
to sit upright and still (idiom)
term in TCM describing the progress of disease as an opposition between vital energy 正氣|正气 and pathogeny 邪氣|邪气
positron (antiparticle of the electron)
bonesetting / Chinese osteopathy
formal vote
(math.) sine
Zhengde Emperor, reign name of eleventh Ming emperor Zhu Houzhao 朱厚照 (1491-1521), reigned 1505-1521, temple name 明武宗

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