正是

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zhèng shì

is precisely

Examples

正是这个意思！

That's exactly what it means!

现在正是好时候。

The present time is a good time.

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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.