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
- —中焦middle jiao (in traditional Chinese medicine); middle burner
- —中頭mesocephaly
- —門中Okinawa family clan based on the paternal line that shares the same tomb and performs rituals together
- —中台China and Taiwan
- —中辛medium-spicy
- —皆中hitting all the targets (archery)
- —中物thing of medium quality; Koya paper
- —中歯medium height geta
- —顔中whole face; all over one's face
- —高中senior high school (in the PRC or ROC)
- —反中anti-Chinese
- —中量medium volume; medium scale; moderate size; mid-size
- —中輪medium-sized (of a flower, esp. a chrysanthemum)
- —中菊medium-sized chrysanthemum
- —作中within the story (of a book, play, film, etc.)
- —中文Chinese language (written); Chinese literature
- —中男one's second son; man between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryō system)
- —壺中inside a jar; coward; timid person
- —中蘊bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days)
- —語中middle of a word; within a word