整整
Written zhěng zhěng, said zhéng zhěng — a third tone before another third tone is said as a second.
Meaning
- whole
- full
Example sentence
她哭了整整一晚。
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.