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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		仲

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhòng (zhong⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chung⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jonq
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zung⁶
    • Yale: juhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (仲, reconstructed)
Character (仲), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 澄 (11) Final: 東 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 直衆切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɖɨuŋH/	/ȡʱi̯uŋH/	/ȡiuŋH/	/ɖiuŋH/	/ɖuwŋH/	/ȡĭuŋH/	/ȡiuŋH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (仲, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
仲								zhòng								‹ drjuwngH ›								/*N-truŋ-s/								middle (of brothers)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
仲					17419					中					終					0					仲					/*duŋs/

Definitions

1. (Cantonese) still (referring to time)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

仲

なか Grade: 4

kun'yomi

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

• Goon: じゅう (jū)
• Kan’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 (jung) (hangeul 중, revised jung, McCune-Reischauer chung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

仲 (trọng)

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References

• Nom Foundation