足足

zúzú

adverb #10,124

Meanings

1 fully
2 no less than
3 as much as

Characters

foot; sufficient; full

Examples

我等了他足足两个小时。

Wǒ děng le tā zúzú liǎng ge xiǎoshí.

I waited for him for a full two hours.

这本书足足有一千页。

Zhè běnshū zúzú yǒu yīqiān yè.

This book has no less than a thousand pages.

Tips

usage

足足 emphasizes that a quantity is surprisingly large or a duration is unexpectedly long. It always precedes a number + measure word phrase.

Stroke Order

足 zú