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整整

zhěng zhěng

Written zhěng zhěng, said zhéng zhěng — a third tone before another third tone is said as a second.

HSK 3 · word 2117 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

她哭了整整一晚。

tā kū le zhéng zhěng yì wǎn

She cried all bloody night.

Characters in 整整

整 whole, doubled for emphasis. Reduplication intensifies here, the same shape as 常常 and 慢慢: 整整一年, a whole year.

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