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
- —食品中毒food poisoning
- —中間業者middleman
- —中華包丁Chinese chef's knife (resembles a cleaver)
- —中国結びChinese knot; Chinese knotting art; knotting art
- —大建中湯dai-kenchu-to (traditional Japanese herbal medicine); DKT
- —満腹中枢satiety center (of the brain)
- —泥中の蓮something pure amidst filth; a rose among nettles; a lotus in the mire
- —食欲中枢appetite center (of the brain)
- —摂食中枢feeding center (of the brain)
- —雪中送炭helping someone in trouble; sending charcoal to someone in the snow
- —風沢中孚zhong fu (hexagram 61 of the I Ching: inner truth)
- —無中生有creation out of nothing; making something out of thin air; pure fabrication; "Creating Something from Nothing" (7th of the Thirty-Six Stratagems); making a non-existent thing appear to exist to deceive an enemy
- —中高一貫integrated middle and high school (education)
- —快楽中枢pleasure center; reward center
- —中継地点relay exchange point (e.g. in a relay race, ekiden); transfer point (goods, people, etc.); smuggling point; relay point
- —商工中金Shoko Chukin Bank (abbr); Central Bank for Commercial and Industrial Associations
- —中央公論Chūōkōron (monthly literary magazine)
- —中華航空China Airlines
- —中華電信Chunghwa Telecom
- —中外製薬Chugai Pharmaceutical