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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 zhěng zhěng yì wǎn

She cried all bloody night.

Characters in 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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