正当
zhèng​dàngzhèng​dāng HSK6

proper

正当 正當 zhèng​dàng frequency
proper adjective
Honest, reasonable, or fair; meeting the requirements of what is legal or morally correct

有时候他们的恐惧是正当的。

yǒu shí​hou tā​men de kǒng​jù shì zhèng​dàng de.

Sometimes their fears are justified.

正当 正當 zhèng​dāng
just when adverb
Just when or just as something is happening, specifically referring to being in the middle of a certain time or period

正当他在电脑上工作时，来访者进来了。

zhèng​dāng tā zài diàn​nǎo shang gōng​zuò shí, lái​fǎng​zhě jìn lai le.

While he was working on his computer, a visitor came in.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
12.0 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
22.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6

Cross-References

Antonym

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)