整个 "whole“ is used in place of a number (actually 一 "one" can be omitted) and before a classifier to mean "one whole thing" (obviously you can change the number to say N whole things): 她吃掉了一整桶冰淇淋 She ate a whole bucket of ice cream.

So 整个 is, literally, 'the whole unit (of), the entirety (of)', as opposed to 'a proportion (of)'. 我整个身体都不舒服。My whole body feels sick. However, I don't think 'whether the object is having parts or not' matters for applying 整个 (on the contrary, it matters for 全).

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2015年7月21日 · But I still don't understand why sometimes we should use 全 instead of 整个or 整个instead of 全when we want to say whole (entire)。 As Jiang says we should say 全身湿透了(wet through),整个身子受都了(injured everywhere)，**整个**人都不好了, Is there a reason for that, as the one you give for 个 ge usage ?(Húli) –

2022年9月25日 · all [整个] candidates [候选人] competed in [赛] a 14-round competition [14盘比赛]; or; the whole [整个] candidates tournament [候选人赛] comprised of a 14-round competition [14盘比赛]. Basically, this boils down to whether or not 候选人赛 is interpreted as "candidates tournament" or "candidates compete".

Recently, I've been reading a bit of 鲁迅 and I've run into the word 凡事 a number of times. Everytime, I see it translated it seems to mean 所有。 It seems to me that 凡事 is either an older usage or is m...

2017年7月13日 · I think 中国人 only refers to people having Chinese nationality while 华人 can be referred to any Chinese-descent people. If one person is China-born and has Chinese nationality, should I always use 中国...

I've read the following two sentences today: 我以前在这里踢足球 现在我在踢球 However, what is the difference between the 踢足球 and 踢球? I think both means playing soccer, but is there any difference?

2018年3月26日 · all situations？(although 完毕 has 10 times the frequency #of 完成 (see comment 1) (indicating relatively low usage frequency)，there are well established speech formulas requiring 完毕, see comment 2, and note that it corresponds to "10-4" or "over" when ending any kind of speech transmission between professionals (truckers, police).iciba:1.

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