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
- —中小企業退職金共済事業団Smaller Enterprise Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid Corporation
- —中国疾病予防管理センターChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; CCDC
- —中流に舟を失えば一壺も千金any port will do in a storm; when you've lost your boat midstream, even a pot is worth a fortune
- —先天性中枢性肺胞低換気症候群congenital central hypoventilation syndrome; CCHS
- —山中の賊を破るは易く心中の賊を破るは難しit's hard to discipline one's mind; defeating the bandits in the mountains is easy; defeating the bandit in one's heart is hard
- —折中compromise; cross; blending; eclecticism
- —中ロChina and Russia; Sino-Russian
- —中形medium size
- —中國China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryō system)
- —中坐leaving one's seat (before an event is over); excusing oneself (from a meeting, conversation, etc.)
- —中春second month of the lunar calendar; 15th day of the second month of the lunar calendar (around mid-spring)
- —中冬eleventh month of the lunar calendar
- —適中proving to be right; coming true; being on the mark
- —中位(about) medium; middle; average
- —中篇second part (of three); second volume; middle part; novella; short novel
- —中押winning by opponent's resignation
- —中二second 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
- —街中the whole town; all over the town; throughout the town
- —中一first year of junior high school; first-year junior high school student
- —中呂(in China) 6th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G); fourth lunar month