整
zhěng HSK3

orderly

整 zhěng
whole numeral
whole; complete; entire; (used before a measure word) full

他花了一整天的时间看书。

tā huā le yī zhěng tiān de shí​jiān kàn shū.

He spent the entire day reading.

exactly numeral
exactly; (used before or after a number and measure word) precise

现在是十点整。

xiàn​zài shì shí​diǎn zhěng.

It is ten o'clock sharp.

organize verb
to put in order; to straighten; to repair; to mend; to renovate

他的书包里乱七八糟的，得好好整一整。

tā de shū​bāo lǐ luàn​qī​bā​zāo de, děi hǎo​hǎo zhěng yī zhěng.

His schoolbag is a total mess; it needs a good tidying up.

do verb
(dialect) to do; to make; to tinker with; to work on

这事儿你打算怎么整？

zhè shì​r nǐ dǎ​suàn zěn​me zhěng?

How do you plan to handle this matter?

mess with verb
(colloquial) to fix someone; to give someone a hard time; to punish

大家看他不顺眼，想整他一下。

dà​jiā kàn tā bù shùn​yǎn, xiǎng zhěng tā yī​xià.

Everyone finds him unpleasant and wants to play a trick on him.

tidy adjective
in good order; tidy; neat

这卷毛线绕得真整，一点也不乱。

zhè juǎn máo​xiàn rào de zhēn zhěng, yī​diǎn yě bù luàn.

This ball of yarn is wound very neatly, not messy at all.

Frequency
Character
Written text
416th most common 521.5 per million
Movie subtitles
390th most common 384.7 per million appears in 84% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
110.5 per million appears in 39% of films
Written text
73.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+6574

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)