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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

正音zhèng yīn

standard pronunciation / to correct sb's pronunciation

正颜厉色zhèng yán lì sè

solemn in countenance (idiom) / strict and unsmiling

正驾驶zhèng jià shǐ

pilot-in-command / captain (cf. 副駕駛|副驾驶[fù jià shǐ], copilot)

正骨zhèng gǔ

bonesetting / Chinese osteopathy

正骨八法zhèng gǔ bā fǎ

the eight methods of bonesetting / Chinese osteopathy

正体zhèng tǐ

standard form (of a Chinese character) / plain font style (as opposed to bold or italic) / printed style (as opposed to cursive) / (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters

正体字zhèng tǐ zì

standard form of a Chinese character / (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters

上梁不正下梁歪shàng liáng bù zhèng xià liáng wāi

lit. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked (idiom) / fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices

上颚正门齿shàng è zhèng mén chǐ

maxillary central incisor

不正之风bù zhèng zhī fēng

unhealthy tendency

不正常bù zhèng cháng

abnormal

不正当bù zhèng dàng

dishonest / unfair / improper

不正当竞争bù zhèng dàng jìng zhēng

unfair competition / illicit competition

不正当关系bù zhèng dàng guān xì

improper relationship / illicit relationship

不正确bù zhèng què

incorrect / erroneous

中正zhōng zhèng

fair and honest

二正丙醚èr zhèng bǐng mí

di-n-propyl ether

五官端正wǔ guān duān zhèng

to have regular features

令正lìng zhèng

(honorific) your wife

以正视听yǐ zhèng shì tīng

(idiom) in order to set the record straight / to clarify matters for the public

作风正派zuò fēng zhèng pài

to be honest and upright / to have moral integrity

修成正果xiū chéng zhèng guǒ

to achieve Buddhahood through one's efforts and insight / to obtain a positive outcome after sustained efforts / to come to fruition

修正主义xiū zhèng zhǔ yì

revisionism

修正液xiū zhèng yè

correction fluid

假正经jiǎ zhèng jīng

demure / prudish / hypocritical

偏正式合成词piān zhèng shì hé chéng cí

modified compound word

偏邪不正piān xié bù zhèng

biased / prejudiced (idiom)

八正道bā zhèng dào

the Eight-fold Noble Way (Buddhism)

刊正kān zhèng

to proofread and correct

刚正gāng zhèng

honest / upright

刚正不阿gāng zhèng bù ē

upright and plainspoken

勘正kān zhèng

to proofread and correct

匡正kuāng zhèng

to correct / to amend / to redress (evils)

反正一样fǎn zhèng yī yàng

whether it's right or wrong doesn't make a lot of difference / six of one and half a dozen of the other / as broad as it is long

口嫌体正直kǒu xián tǐ zhèng zhí

your lips say one thing, but your body language reveals what you really think (borrowed from Japanese)

名不正言不顺míng bu zhèng yán bu shùn

(of a title, degree etc) illegitimately conferred

寿终正寝shòu zhōng zhèng qǐn

to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life

字正腔圆zì zhèng qiāng yuán

to enunciate beautifully (in speaking or singing) (idiom)

守正不阿shǒu zhèng bù ē

to be strictly just and impartial

宗正zōng zhèng

minister in charge of the imperial clan

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