中

middle; China

No. 13 most used

Also read: zhòng 中奖

How it's built

• 口mouth
• 丨line

A way to remember it

A line (丨) through the middle of a box (口): the centre.

Words

• 其中

  qí zhōng

  among; in; included among these
• 中国

  zhōng guó

  China
• 中心

  zhōng xīn

  center; heart; core
• 之中

  zhī zhōng

  inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth)
• 高中

  gāo zhōng

  senior high school (abbr. for 高级中学)
• 中间

  zhōng jiān

  the middle; the inside; in the middle; within; between; among; during; in the meantime

Sentences

• 中国比日本大得多。

  zhōng guó bǐ rì běn dà de duō

  China is much larger than Japan.
• 他在一所中学工作。

  tā zài yì suǒ zhōng xué gōng zuò

  He works in a secondary school.
• 他明天出发去中国。

  tā míng tiān chū fā qù zhōng guó

  He leaves for China tomorrow.
• 大号的还是中号的？

  dà hào de hái shi zhōng hào de

  A large or medium-sized one?

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.