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正义

zhèng yì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 正義

正义 (zhèng yì) means "justice". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 正义 means

1. justice; righteousness
2. just; righteous
3. (in the titles of traditional commentaries) correct interpretation

The characters in 正义

• 正zhèngstraight; upright; proper
• 义yìjustice; righteousness; meaning

Example sentences

• 他想要正义。
  He wants justice.
• 我为正义而战。
  Wǒ wèi zhèngyì ér zhàn.
  I fight in the cause of justice.
• 正义终将胜利。
  Justice will prevail in the end.
• 他们想要正义。
  They want justice.
• 法律的目标是正义。
  Fǎlǜ de mùbiāo shì zhèngyì.
  The objective of law is justice.
• 他相信，战争是为了正义而战。
  He believed that the war was fought in the cause of justice.

Words starting with 正义

• 正义党Zhèng yì dǎngJusticialist Party
• 正义斗争zhèng yì dòu zhēngrighteous struggle
• 正义魔人zhèng yì mó rén(Taiwan) sanctimonious person; self-appointed moral arbiter

Words containing 正义

• 社会正义shè huì zhèng yìsocial justice

Sounds the same

Read zhèng yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 正意sense (in DNA)

Where 正义 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhèng–zhī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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