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工整 (gōng zhěng) — neat, well-organized; done carefully and precisely

Definition

工整 means 'neat and orderly,' usually about handwriting, layout, or visual work. Compared with 精心 and 精细 (about care in planning/handling), 工整 focuses on the tidy, well-arranged appearance.

adjective
neatwell-organizeddone carefully and precisely

Examples

  • 工整。
    Tā de zì xiě dé fēi cháng gōng zhěng.
    His handwriting is very neat.
  • 工整。
    Zhè jiàn yī fu de zhēn jiǎo hěn gōng zhěng.
    The stitching on this garment's stitching is very neat.
  • 工整，。
    Tā de gōng zuò zǒng shì hěn gōng zhěng, cóng bù mǎ hu.
    His work is always meticulous, never sloppy.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

工gōngcareful
整zhěngneat

工 means careful or fine, and 整 means neat, together describing tidy, precise work.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape of 工 is a picture of a bladed tool used to plow ground or mark a border; some read it as a carpenter's square.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
敕敕chì
Sound part声符shēngfú
正
正zhèng整zhěng
Same sound today

整 pairs 敕 as the meaning side with 正 as the sound side.

Open 整 →
Appears in
HSK 3.0 Level 7-9

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