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整

Mandarin · pinyin zhěng

(bound form) whole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole; (before or after number + measure word) exactly
(bound form) in good order; tidy; neat
(bound form) to put in order; to straighten
(bound form) to repair; to mend; to renovate
(coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb
(dialect) to tinker with; to do sth to

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整: zhěng · orderly, neat, tidy; whole

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zing2

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to gather; to assemble
to put in order; to sort out
to fix; to repair
(literary, or in compounds) to rebuild; to renovate; to recondition; to refurbish
orderly; neat; tidy
whole; entire; all; complete
exactly
number whose decimal representation ends in one or more zeroes; round number
(dialectal Mandarin) to do
(dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese) to make (something); to create; to fix
(dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese) to turn something from one state into another; to make; forming a causative.
(Cantonese) to provide
(colloquial) to make someone suffer; to mess with someone; to prank someone

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