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正室

zhèng shì

2-character word

What 正室 means

1. primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife

The characters in 正室

• 正zhèngstraight; upright; proper
• 室shìroom; work unit; grave

Sounds the same

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

• 正是is precisely
• 正式formal; official
• 正视to face squarely; to meet head on; to face up to
• 正事one's proper business
• 政事politics; government affairs