中 (zhōng)
Middle; center; inside; China.
How 中 is written
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- Traditional
- 中
- Simplified
- 中 (unchanged)
Components
- 口 mouth
- 丨 line
中 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- zhōng
- China; Chinese; surname Zhong
- zhòng
- to hit (the mark); to be hit by; to suffer; to win (a prize, a lottery)
Common words using 中
- 中國 zhōngguó
- China
- 中共 zhōnggòng
- abbr. for Chinese Communist (party, regime etc)
- 中午 zhōngwǔ
- noon; midday; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 中原 zhōngyuán
- the central plains of China; the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei; a plain
- 中國人 zhōngguórén
- Chinese person
- 中國式 zhōngguóshì
- Chinese style; à la chinoise
- 中場 zhōngchǎng
- middle period of a tripartite provincial exam (in former times); midfield; mid-court (in sports)
- 中外 zhōngwài
- Sino-foreign; Chinese-foreign; home and abroad
- 中天 zhōngtiān
- culmination (astronomy)
- 中央 zhōngyāng
- central; middle; center
- 中學 zhōngxué
- middle school; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 中年 zhōngnián
- middle age
中 in a sentence
中午我們一起去吃飯吧。
Zhōngwǔ wǒmen yìqǐ qù chīfàn ba.
“Let's go eat lunch together at noon.”
How common is 中?
中 is the 14th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 16.5% of all running text.
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