正义 zhèngyì▶ công lý

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học thuyết
• 公正công bằng; hội chợ
• 含义ý nghĩa
• 定义Định nghĩa
• 更正đúng; sửa chữa
• 正宗xác thực

正义 is pronounced zhèngyì and means “công lý”. 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.