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正视

zhèng shì

2-character word Traditional 正視

What 正视 means

1. to face squarely; to meet head on; to face up to

The characters in 正视

• 正zhèngstraight; upright; proper
• 视shì(literary, or bound form) to look at

Words containing 正视

• 以正视听yǐ zhèng shì tīng(idiom) in order to set the record straight; to clarify matters for the public

Sounds the same

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

• 正是is precisely
• 正式formal; official
• 正事one's proper business
• 政事politics; government affairs
• 正室primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife