总

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HSK 3#335 by frequencyradical 心

zǒng["d","b","v"]

always; invariably; in every case; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; general; overall; to sum up; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc

Examples

我总觉得渴。

I'm always thirsty.

我总是很忙。

I am forever busy.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.