整理
Written zhěng lǐ, said zhéng lǐ — a third tone before another third tone is said as a second.
Meaning
- to arrange
- to tidy up
- to sort out
Example sentence
整理一下房间。
Tidy up the room.
Characters in 整理
- 整 zhěng (bound form) whole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole; (before or after number + measure word) exactly
- 理 lǐ reason, principle; to manage, to put in order
整 whole plus 理, to put in order. 理 gives 管理, 道理 and 理由; the pair is tidying rather than mending.