HanTrace

整体

zhěngtǐ
nounHSK 3

“Whole” in Chinese is 整体 (zhěngtǐ).

Meaning

  • whole; entirety
  • overall; whole; general
  • on the whole; overall

Example

整体比其各部分的总和更重要。

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

zhěngHSK 316 strokeswhole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole; (before or after number + measure word) exactlytǐHSK 17 strokesbody

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