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
- —中宮the Empress, the Empress Dowager and the Grand Empress Dowager; emperor's second consort; empress; palace of the empress; building of a Shinto shrine built on middle ground; demesne of the imperial palace
- —中共Chinese Communist Party; Chinese Communists; Communist China
- —中興restoration; revival; resurgence
- —中句middle part of the verse
- —中空hollow; mid-air; air; sky
- —中景middle distance
- —中更middle watch; 12 midnight-2am
- —中項mean
- —中腰half-sitting posture; half-standing posture; half-rising posture; stooping position
- —中座leaving one's seat (before an event is over); excusing oneself (from a meeting, conversation, etc.)
- —中皿medium-sized dish
- —中支Central China
- —中糸medium-sized thread
- —中震moderate earthquake
- —中数mean; average; middle-school arithmetic
- —中正impartiality; fairness
- —中ソChina and the Soviet Union; Soviet-Chinese; Sino-Soviet
- —中速intermediate gear
- —中尊central image (e.g. in a Buddha triad)
- —中段half-way up a slope or stairway; landing; center of three (horizontal) columns; middle guard position (of a sword in kendo, etc.)