仲

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 亻 + phonetic 中

Han character

仲 (radical 9 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人中 (OL), X人中 (XOL), four-corner 2520₆, composition ⿰亻中)

1. middle(or second) brother
2. go between, mediator
3. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: page 94, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 403
• Dae Jaweon: page 200, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 121, character 7
• Unihan data for U+4EF2

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Cantonese

Hanzi

仲 (Yale jung6)

1. Still (referring to time)

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Japanese

Noun

仲 (hiragana なか, romaji naka)

1. relationship, terms

Derived terms

• 仲がいい, 仲が良い
• 仲良し
• 仲良く
• 仲に入る
• 仲違い
• 仲直り
• 仲働き
• 仲睦まじい
• 仲立ち

Kanji

仲 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ちゅう (chū)
• Kun: なか (naka)

Compounds

• 仲夏
• 仲介
• 仲核
• 仲間
• 仲居
• 仲兄
• 仲継
• 仲見世, 仲店
• 仲裁
• 仲仕
• 仲秋
• 仲春
• 仲人
• 仲断
• 仲値
• 仲冬
• 仲買
• 仲保
• 仲立人

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Korean

Hanja

仲 (hangeul 중, revised jung, McCune-Reischauer chung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

仲 (pinyin zhòng (zhong4), Wade-Giles chung⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

仲 (trọng)

References

• Nom Foundation