zhèng
noun #14,687

Meanings

  1. 1 political
  2. 2 government

Examples

Zhèngfǔ
government
Zhèngzhì
politics; political
Zhèngcè
policy

Tips

memory
(correct) + (action) — correct governance

Components

radical
to tap; to strike (right-side variant of 攴)
Right — a hand holding a stick to compel action, the rap radical. Indexes in the active-administration family ( to reform, to instruct, imperial edict). Together with the picture is: enforcing correctness with the rod of authority — the original meaning of government.
phonetic
zhèng
upright; correct (here phonetic + semantic)
Left — a foot stopping at a marked line, meaning correctness and proper alignment. Supplies the sound zhèng directly with no shift and pulls in the meaning: governing is the business of keeping things upright and orderly. Same phonetic in to arrange, to levy — all carrying the rightness flavour.

Stroke Order

zhèng