直

HSK 5#1420 by frequencyradical 目

Zhí["d","a","v"]

straight; to straighten; fair and reasonable; frank; straightforward; (indicates continuing motion or action); vertical; vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters

Examples

直走。

Go straight ahead.

他坐直了。

He was sitting up straight.

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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.