Kanji1 / 4
中 kanji
in, inside, middle, mean, center
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
チュウ
Kun readings
なかうちあたる
Words with 中
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —中天mid-air; mid-heaven; zenith
- —中点middle point; median point; middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint (interword separation)
- —中堂main temple building
- —中肉medium build; meat of medium quality
- —中脳midbrain; mesencephalon
- —中農middle-class farmer
- —中波medium wave; medium frequency; MF; medium frequency wave
- —中破medium damage; modest damage; some damage
- —中背average height
- —中判medium size; cabinet size (in photography)
- —中半middle; half-finished
- —中飯the noonday meal
- —中瓶medium-sized bottle (of beer)
- —中幅medium-width cloth (approx. 45 cm wide); medium-width kimono sash (approx. 26 cm); medium-width obi
- —中分dividing into two halves
- —中柄medium size; medium pattern; medium stature
- —中米Central America
- —中保mediation
- —中庸middle way; (golden) mean; moderation; middle path; the Doctrine of the Mean (one of the Four Books)
- —中葉about the middle (of an era); middle lobe (right lung); median lobe (prostate)