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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 Usage notes 1.1.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 3.2 Number 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.2.1 Compounds 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

[edit] Han character

正 (radical 77 止+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一卜中一 (MYLM), four-corner 1010₂, composition ⿱一止)

1. right, proper, correct
2. (tally marks) 5
3. 10^40

[edit] Usage notes

• (tally marks, 5): The successive strokes of 正 () are used in China, Japan, and Korea to designate tallies in votes, scores, points, sushi orders, and the like, much as is used in Europe, Zimbabwe, Australia, and North America. Tallies beyond five are written with a 正 for each group of five, followed by the remainder. For example, a tally of twelve () is written as 正正丅.

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 574, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16255
• Dae Jaweon: page 962, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1436, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6B63

• Chinese numeral 正
  • Last: 澗, 涧
  • Next: 載, 载

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

正 (Yale jing3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

正 (grade 1 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: せい (sei), しょう (shō)
• Kun: ただしい (tadashii), まさ (masa), ただす (tadasu)

[edit] Compounds

正覚 (しょうがく, shougaku) 正月 (しょうがつ, shougatsu) 正客 (しょうきゃく, shoukyaku) 正直 (しょうじき, shoujiki) 正体 (しょうたい, shoutai) 正札 (しょうふだ, shoufuda) 正法 (しょうぶ, shoubu) 正本 (しょうほん, shouhon) 正味 (しょうみ, shoumi) 正面 (しょうめん, shoumen) 正義 (せいぎ, seigi) 正確 (せいかく, seikaku) 正眼 (せいがん, seigan) 正鵠 (せいこく, seikoku) 正史 (せいし, seishi) 正使 (せいし, seishi)

正式 (せいしき, seishiki) 正規 (せいき, seiki) 正視 (せいし, seishi) 正書 (せいしょ, seisho) 正字 (せいじ, seiji) 正邪 (せいじゃ, seija) 正常 (せいじょう, seijou) 正数 (せいすう, seisuu) 正則 (せいそく, seisoku) 正道 (せいどう, seidou) 正犯 (せいはん, seihan) 正否 (せいひ, seihi) 正比例 (せいひれい, seihirei) 正文 (せいぶん, seibun) 正論 (せいろん, seiron) 正夢 (まさゆめ, masayume)

[edit] Number

正 (せい, sei)

1. A number of 10⁴⁰ in modern Japanese since 17th century.

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

正
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 정 (revised: jeong, McCune-Reischauer: chŏng, Yale: ceng)

• Name (hangeul): 바를 (revised: bareul, McCune-Reischauer: parŭl)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Hanzi

正 (pinyin zhèng (zheng4), Wade-Giles cheng⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 正月
• 正常
• 正确
• 正式

Antonym(s):

• 歪

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

正 (*jiɛ̀ng)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

正 (chính, chánh, chếnh, giêng)