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
- —中古語Early Middle Japanese
- —中古文Heian-period kana writing
- —町中華simple, inexpensive Chinese restaurant; popular no-frills Chinese restaurant; hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant
- —懐中花pocket-sized hanafuda; small hanafuda
- —中盛りmedium-sized portion; normal serving
- —中古音Middle Chinese
- —中止犯would-be crime abandoned before being carried out
- —移動中while moving; on the move
- —中腸腺hepatopancreas; midgut gland
- —中期防(five-year) medium-term defense program (Japan)
- —試合中during a game; in the middle of a match
- —中央党Centre Party; Center Party
- —中間部middle section (of a composition in ternary form); trio
- —接中語infix
- —中国製made in China; Chinese-made
- —中華系Chinese (lineage, ancestry, ethnicity, etc.); Sino-
- —中等症moderate illness
- —中央語language used in the political and cultural center of a country
- —妊娠中while pregnant; during one's pregnancy
- —中層雲mid-level clouds; middle clouds