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
- —寒中見舞いwinter greeting card; inquiring after someone's health in the cold season
- —嫁入り道中nuptial procession
- —ひぼう中傷slander; calumny; defamation; libel; abuse
- —受け付け中currently accepting (applications, etc.)
- —地中海実蠅Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata); medfly
- —暑中お見舞summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season
- —中ぶらりんdangling; hanging; suspended; pending; half done; in limbo; indecisive
- —中央ぞろえcenter alignment; center justification; centering
- —中央そろえcenter alignment; center justification; centering
- —其処いら中everywhere; all over the place
- —壷中の天地another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world
- —市中引廻しparading a criminal through town before their execution (Edo period)
- —市中引回しparading a criminal through town before their execution (Edo period)
- —中咽頭がんoropharyngeal cancer; cancer of the oropharynx
- —中咽頭ガンoropharyngeal cancer; cancer of the oropharynx
- —泥中のハスsomething pure amidst filth; a rose among nettles; a lotus in the mire
- —おいらん道中procession of oiran through a red-light district (e.g. to meet a regular client; during the Edo period)
- —越中ふんどしstring loincloth; G-string
- —獅子心中の虫snake in one's bosom; treacherous friend
- —手中に収めるto make one's own; to take possession of