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正式

zhèng shì

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

正式 (zhèng shì) means "formal; official". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 正式 means

1. formal; official

The characters in 正式

• 正zhèngstraight; upright; proper
• 式shìtype; form; pattern

Example sentences

• 他给了我正式批准。
  Tā gěi le wǒ zhèngshì pīzhǔn.
  He gave me his stamp of approval.
• 这个典礼有多正式?
  Zhège diǎnlǐ yǒu duō zhèngshì?
  How formal is this ceremony?
• 你没必要那幺正式。
  You don't have to be so formal.
• 正式工比临时工要好。
  Zhèngshìgōng bǐ línshígōng yào hǎo.
  A permanent job is better than a temporary one.
• 她不是这间公司正式的职员。
  Tā bù shì zhè jiān gōngsī zhèngshì de zhíyuán.
  She's not a full-time employee of this company.
• 您没必要准备一个正式的演讲。
  Nín méi bìyào zhǔnbèi yī gè zhèngshì de yǎnjiǎng.
  You don't need to prepare a formal speech.

Words starting with 正式

• 正式投票zhèng shì tóu piàoformal vote

Words containing 正式

• 非正式fēi zhèng shìunofficial; informal
• 偏正式合成词piān zhèng shì hé chéng címodified compound word

Sounds the same

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

• 正是is precisely
• 正视to face squarely; to meet head on; to face up to
• 正事one's proper business
• 政事politics; government affairs
• 正室primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife

Where 正式 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Formal register words (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhèng shì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.