整 (zhěng) means Whole (tidy - sort out - repair). Below are 24 of the 77 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
请把椅子摆 整 齐。
Qǐng bǎ yǐzi bǎi zhěngqí.
Please arrange the chairs neatly.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 摆
队伍排得很 整 齐。
Duìwu pái de hěn zhěngqí.
The line was formed very neatly.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 队伍
同学们排得很 整 齐。
Tóngxuémen pái de hěn zhěngqí.
The students are lined up neatly.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 整齐
要考虑 整 体的效果。
Yào kǎolǜ zhěngtǐ de xiàoguǒ.
You need to consider the overall effect.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 整体
这座桥跨过 整 条河。
Zhè zuò qiáo kuà guò zhěng tiáo hé.
This bridge spans the whole river.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 跨
请把这些材料 整 理好。
Qǐng bǎ zhèxiē cáiliào zhěnglǐ hǎo.
Please put these documents in order.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 整理
请说一个完 整 的句子。
Qǐng shuō yí ge wánzhěng de jùzi.
Please say a complete sentence.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 完整
我们游览了 整 座城市。
Wǒmen yóulǎn le zhěng zuò chéngshì.
We toured the whole city.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 游览
整 个下午他都在看书。
Zhěnggè xiàwǔ tā dōu zài kàn shū.
He read all afternoon.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 整个
整 个城市都亮了起来。
Zhěnggè chéngshì dōu liàng le qǐlái.
The whole city lit up.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 整个
警方封锁了 整 条街道。
Jǐngfāng fēngsuǒ le zhěng tiáo jiēdào.
The police sealed off the entire street.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 封锁
大雪覆盖了 整 个山谷。
Dàxuě fùgài le zhěnggè shāngǔ.
Heavy snow covered the entire valley.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 覆盖
公司调 整 了内部机构。
Gōngsī tiáozhěng le nèibù jīgòu.
The company reorganised its internal structure.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 机构
秘书 整 理了会议纪要。
Mìshū zhěnglǐ le huìyì jìyào.
The secretary drew up the minutes of the meeting.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 纪要
Reading these is one thing; producing 整 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
From the graded readers
我花了 整 整 三天时间 整 理。
wǒ huāle zhěngzhěng sāntiān shíjiān zhěnglǐ.
It took me three full days to sort it out.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
为了这次面试，我准备了 整 整 一个星期。
wèile zhècì miàn shì, wǒ zhǔnbèi le / liǎo / liào zhěngzhěng yīgè xīngqī.
I'd prepared for a full week for it.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
整 理旧东西的时候，我在一本书里发现了一张老照片。
zhěnglǐ jiù dōngxī de / dì shíhou, wǒ zài yī běnshū lǐ fāxiànle yī zhāng lǎo zhàopiàn.
While sorting out old things I found an old photograph inside a book.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
整 appears in 77 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 整
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 整
How is 整 used in a sentence?
This page shows 77 sentences using 整 (zhěng, "Whole (tidy - sort out - repair)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 整 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 整 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 整?
The dictionary page for 整 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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