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中 Definition

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Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Etymology

The shell and bone version of 中 was of a flagpole with the pole piercing the middle of a frame (compare the etymology of 吏).

Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Old Chinese *trjəngʷ (Li Fanggui (1971)). Cognate with Old Tibetan གཞུང (gzhung, "middle, center").[1]

Han character

中 (radical 2 丨+3, 4 strokes, cangjie input 中 (L), four-corner 50006, composition ⿴口 丨)

  1. central
  2. centre, middle
  3. in the midst of
  4. hit (target)
  5. attain

References

  1. ^ 《汉藏语同源词综探》，全广镇

Cantonese

Hanzi

中 (Yale jung1, jung3)

Japanese

See also -中

Noun

中 (hiragana なか, romaji naka)

  1. inside
  2. middle

中 (hiragana ちゅう, romaji chū)

  1. middle
  2. during
  3. being in the process of doing
  4. second volume of a three volume set

中 (hiragana うち, romaji uchi)

内 (うち, uchi)
裡 (うち, uchi)
内 is the most common kanji for this pronunciation.
  1. inside

Kanji

中 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Pronunciation

Romanization

Revised

jung

transliteration

jung
McCune-Reischauer

chung

Yale

cwung

Hanja

中 Eumhun:

  1. the middle, the center, the heart, the midst

Compounds

Noun

中 (jung)

  1. Hanja form? of 중, “the middle, medium, during”.

Mandarin

Pronunciation

Hanzi

中 (pinyin zhōng (zhong1), zhòng (zhong4), Wade-Giles chung1, chung4)

Preposition

中 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin zhōng)

  1. In the middle.

Verb

中 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin zhòng)

  1. To accomplish.

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

中 (trung, trúng)

 

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