正义 zhèngyì▶ justicia

Stroke order

正义 is written in 8 strokes across 2 characters.

• 正 — 5 strokes
• 义 — 3 strokes

Senses

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

Related words

• 主义doctrina
• 公正justo, imparcial; feria
• 含义significación; significados
• 定义Definición
• 更正correcto
• 正宗auténtico

正义 is pronounced zhèngyì and means “justicia”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 正义 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.