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Chinese[edit]
middle; center; within middle; center; within; among; in; while (doing sth); during; China; Chinese; hit (the mark) |
heart; mind | ||
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simp. and trad. (中心) |
中 | 心 | |
anagram | 心中 |
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
中心
- centre (point in the interior of a circle or sphere)
- centre (main part of a thing); core
- centre (place where some function or activity occurs)
Synonyms[edit]
- (centre: point in the interior of a circle or sphere): 當心/当心 (dāngxīn), 當中/当中 (dāngzhōng), 核心 (héxīn), 中央 (zhōngyāng)
- (centre: place where some function or activity occurs): 基點/基点 (jīdiǎn)
Proper noun[edit]
中心
- (~區) a former name of Siming District (思明區) in Xiamen, Fujian, China during the late 1940s
- (~村) Zhongxin (a village in Wudian, Guangshui, Suizhou, Hubei, China)
Adverb[edit]
中心
- (Classical Chinese) in the heart; with all one's heart; from the bottom of one's heart
- 謔浪笑敖,中心是悼。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Xuè làng xiào ào, zhōngxīn shì dào. [Pinyin]
- With scornful words and dissolute, — the smile of pride.
To the centre of my heart I am grieved.
谑浪笑敖,中心是悼。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]- 其母死,哭泣無涕,中心不戚。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: Zhuangzi, circa 3rd – 2nd centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Qí mǔ sǐ, kūqì wú tì, zhōngxīn bù qī. [Pinyin]
- When his mother died, in all his wailing for her he did not shed a tear, and in the core of his heart he felt no distress.
其母死,哭泣无涕,中心不戚。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- 中心憯怛,愛人之仁也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Book of Rites, c. 4th – 2nd century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Zhōngxīn cǎn dá, ài rén zhī rén yě. [Pinyin]
- Where there is a deep and compassionate sympathy in the heart, we have humanity evidenced in the love of others.
中心憯怛,爱人之仁也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Derived terms[edit]
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Kanji in this term | |
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中 | 心 |
ちゅう Grade: 1 |
しん Grade: 2 |
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle Chinese compound 中心 (trjuwng sim, literally “heart in the middle”). Compare modern Hakka reading chûng-sîm.
From 中 (chū, “center”) + 心 (shin, “core”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- center, middle, heart, core (physical center)
- 1931, 宮本百合子, ワルシャワのメーデー:
- 広場の中心へ行くと、やっと、行列らしいものがあった。
- Hiroba no chūshin e iku to, yatto, gyōretsu-rashī mono ga atta.
- She went to the middle of the plaza and finally found a sort of queue.
- 広場の中心へ行くと、やっと、行列らしいものがあった。
- 1931, 宮本百合子, ワルシャワのメーデー:
- center, hub (most important area of activity)
- 1908, 夏目漱石, 坑夫:
- 事の起りを調べて見ると、中心には一人の少女がいる。
- Koto no okori o shirabete miru to, chūshin ni wa hitori no shōjo ga iru.
- If you investigate its origins, you'll find one girl at the center of it all.
- 事の起りを調べて見ると、中心には一人の少女がいる。
- 1908, 夏目漱石, 坑夫:
- crux, main point
- 1921, 豊島与志雄, 反抗:
- 今後の生活が問題の中心だった。
- Kongo no seikatsu ga mondai no chūshin datta.
- The main issue was how we would live from then on.
- 今後の生活が問題の中心だった。
- 1921, 豊島与志雄, 反抗:
Derived terms[edit]
- 中心人物 (chūshin jinbutsu): leader
- 中心地 (chūshinchi): center, metropolis
- 中心思想 (chūshin shisō): central idea
- 中心点 (chūshinten): center
- 中心的 (chūshinteki): central, mainline
- 中心的役割 (chūshinteki yakuwari): central role
- 中心窩 (chūshinka): fovea centralis
- 中心街 (chūshingai): town center
- 中心角 (chūshinkaku): central angle
- 中心部 (chūshinbu): central part
- 中心静脈 (chūshin jōmyaku): central vein
- 自己中心 (jiko chūshin): selfishness, egotism
- 自己中心性 (jiko chūshinsei): egocentrism
- 自己中心的 (jiko chūshinteki): egoistic, selfish
- 質量中心 (shitsuryō chūshin): center of mass
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- 中央 (chūō)
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中 | 心 |
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中 | 心 |
Noun[edit]
中心
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