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(zhōng) - middle, center, China, among in Mandarin

zhōng

Traditional: 中

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HSK 1
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Translation

middle, center, China, among

Word origin

中 (zhōng) 'middle, centre' is a simple indicative character, drawing a line passing through the centre of an enclosure, hence 'the middle'.

Origin
ideograph
Root
中 (zhōng), a vertical line through the centre of an enclosure

Stroke order

Stroke order for 中

Examples

He stands in the middle of the room.

qún

Among the crowd.

He is the tallest among us.

An elderly man sat in the middle.

He is currently in a meeting.

中 (zhōng) means middle, center, China, among. It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.

Where this fits

Appears in 6 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 中.

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This word is part of lesson 3.