中(zhōng)

HSK 14 strokes
Readingszhōngzhòng

(bound form) China

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Stroke order animation

Character information

Pinyin
zhōng / zhòng
Meaning
(bound form) China; Chinese; surname Zhong
Strokes
4
HSK level
HSK 1
Traditional
Same

Origin & structure

Where 中 comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿻口丨

A line 丨 through the center of a box 口

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

口kǒu丨gǔn

Parts are arranged overlaid.

How to write 中 step by step

4 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with 中

Common words using 中 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

zhōng中wǔ午
HSK 1

noon

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zhōng中guó国
HSK 1

China

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zhōng中jiè介
HSK 4

to act as intermediary

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zhōng中zhōng中

middling; average; impartial; (Hong Kong) secondary school that uses Chines…

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zhōng中yà亚

Central Asia

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zhōng中rén人

go-between; mediator; intermediary

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yī一yǔ语zhòng中dì的

(idiom) to hit the mark with a comment; to say sth spot on

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dīng丁zhào肇zhōng中

Samuel C. C. Ting (1936-), American physicist, 1976 Nobel Prize laureate in physics

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From 中’s common words

午国介亚人一语的

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