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央 kanji
center, middle
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
オウ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 央
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3中央Popularcentre; center; middle; heart; capital; seat of government
- —中央集権Popularcentralized authoritarian rule; centralised authoritarian rule
- —央middle; centre; center
- —震央epicentre (of an earthquake); epicenter
- —月央middle of the month
- —道央central Hokkaido
- —年央mid-year; middle of the year
- —県央centre of a prefecture; heart of a prefecture
- —中央口central entrance; central exit
- —中央部centre; center; middle
- —中央線centerline (road); center line; Chuō Line (central railway line in Tokyo)
- —中央値median
- —中央駅central station
- —中央党Centre Party; Center Party
- —中央語language used in the political and cultural center of a country
- —中央館central building; central wing
- —中央線Chūō Line
- —中央計画centralized planning; centralised planning
- —中央政府central government
- —中央突破central breakthrough