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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] 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 .

[edit] Han character

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

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

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 79, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 73
  • Dae Jaweon: page 158, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 28, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+4E2D

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale jung1, jung3)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

(hiragana なか, romaji naka)

  1. inside
  2. middle

(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

(hiragana うち, romaji uchi)

(うち, uchi)
(うち, uchi)

内 is the most common kanji for this pronunciation.

  1. inside

[edit] Suffix

(hiragana じゅう, romaji )

  1. during, in the course of, throughout

[edit] Suffix

(hiragana ちゅう, romaji chū)

  1. being in the process of doing

[edit] Kanji

(grade 1 kanji)

[edit] Readings

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Korean

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Hanja


Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: jung, McCune-Reischauer: chung, Yale: cwung)
  • Name (hangeul): 가운데 (revised: gaunde, McCune-Reischauer: kaunde, Yale: kawuntey)
  1. the middle, the center, the heart, the midst

[edit] Compounds

[edit] Noun

(jung, hangeul , McCune-Reischauer chung, Yale cwung)

  1. medium, average

[edit] Dependent nouns

(hangeul , jung, McCune-Reischauer chung, Yale cwung)

  1. during, in the course of, while
  2. among, in

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Hanzi

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

[edit] Preposition

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin zhōng)

  1. In the middle.

[edit] Verb

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin zhòng)

  1. To accomplish.

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(trung, trong, truông, đúng, trúng, truồng)

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