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
- —座中gathering; theatrical troupe
- —行中in the middle of a line
- —中啓ceremonial folding fan
- —中哲Chinese philosophy
- —中２second year of junior high school; second-year junior high school student; behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; 2nd year of junior high sickness
- —中飛center fly; centre fly
- —町中the whole town; all over the town; throughout the town
- —中忍ninja commander
- —中人go-between; intermediary; middleman; mediator; person of middling ability, talent, etc.; average person; middle-class person
- —中韓China and South Korea
- —中皮mesothelium; mesothelial
- —元中Genchū era (of the Southern Court; 1384.4.28-1392.10.5)
- —人中in company; among people; philtrum
- —寺中in a temple; inside temple grounds; sub-temple
- —中台exact center of the Garbhadhatu mandala; platform upon which the fire is lit in a stone lantern
- —中１first year of junior high school; first-year junior high school student
- —中刻middle third of a two-hour period
- —中鷺medium egret (Ardea intermedia); intermediate egret
- —中有bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days)
- —中称mesioproximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the listener)