IDENTITY
中zhōngmiddle; center; China (abbreviation)
HSK 1Top 15
CORE MEANING
middle; center; China (abbreviation)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.middle; centerHSK1
- 2.China (abbreviation)HSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 丨line radical (gǔn)
- strokes
- 4
- Structure
- single component
- IDS sequence
- ⿻口丨
- the box
- the line striking through the middle
USAGE
Common words
中国ZhōngguóChina
中午zhōngwǔnoon
中间zhōngjiānmiddle
Graded examples
中国的首都是北京。Zhōngguó de shǒudū shì Běijīng.HSK1
The capital of China is Beijing.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 终
LEARNING
Memory aid
A line through the center of a box — right in the middle.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #15
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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