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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *中* | 中* | *中
within; among; in / middle; center / while (doing sth); during / (dialect) OK; all right
HSK 1
middle school
HSK 1
the middle; the inside / in the middle; within; between; among / during; in the meantime
HSK 1
middle-school student / high school student
HSK 1
middle level (in a hierarchy)
HSK 2
middle age
HSK 2
middle and elementary school
HSK 2
midnight / in the middle of the night
HSK 2
among / in the middle / in the center
HSK 3
middle part; central section; central region
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *腰* | 腰* | *腰
the waist and lower back / (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food) / the waist of trousers or a skirt / (metonym) money pouch; pocket / (bound form) the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc)
HSK 4
central / middle / center / central authorities (of a state)
HSK 5
middle (of a period of time) / medium-term (plan, forecast etc)
HSK 6
middle third of a month
HSK 7-9
the middle of the night
third year in junior middle school
black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground)
Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei
middle of the forehead / imperial court / heaven
medieval / Middle Ages
(TCM) middle burner, the part of the body within the abdominal cavity (between the diaphragm and the navel, including the spleen and stomach)
2nd year in junior middle school / 2nd day of a lunar month / 2nd day of lunar New Year
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *仲* | 仲* | *仲
second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers
entrance exam for senior middle school
middle / center / right in the middle or center / nub
first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school
middle-ranking
copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China)
middle class
Middle East
middle shift; swing shift; early night shift / middle class in kindergarten (4-5 year olds)
middle ear
mid- (e.g. mid-century) / middle period
to compromise / to take the middle road / a trade-off / eclectic
ossicles (in the middle ear) / also written 聽小骨|听小骨
attached (or affiliated) secondary (or middle) school / abbr. for 附屬中學|附属中学
to be between two parties (as in mediation) / to be in the middle; to be in between / (page layout) to be centered
fragment / piece / (of a film) to break in the middle of viewing
middle class / bourgeois
to stop in the middle of sth / intermittent / intermittence
in the middle of the street / facing the street
medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand
flower drum, a type of double-skinned Chinese drum / folk dance popular in provinces around the middle reaches of the Yangtze / (bicycle wheel) hub
greasy food; oily food / (of food) greasy; oily; fatty / (neologism c. 2017) (of a middle-aged man) obnoxious; pretentious; vulgar
Baal, god worshipped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
in the middle of the road / to be in the way / to hold power / (fig.) to predominate / to be in vogue
middle finger
middle game (in go or chess) / (share trading) mid-session / (abbr. for 中盤商|中盘商) distributor / wholesaler / middleman
middle section; middle period; middle area; mid-
(hitting) squarely in the middle / (slicing) across the middle / to hold by the waist
(in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force
middle game (in go or chess)
karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)
jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸|十二指肠 and ileum 回腸|回肠)
middle of the back
content to hold a small part of the territory / fig. forced to relinquish the middle ground / forced to move away
coronal consonants of Middle Chinese
(idiom) in broad daylight; in the middle of the day / KMT emblem, a white sun on a blue background
entering tone / checked tone / one of the four tones of Middle Chinese
cloth pouch open in the middle, forming two bags / jacket worn for Chinese wrestling
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
middle of the river
dead center; the very middle
tympanic cavity (of the middle ear)
hand gesture in traditional dances (joined thumb and middle finger, the rest extended)
malleus or hammer bone of middle ear
(idiom) in the middle of the night
middle / halfway
(coll., humorous) money (so named because in former times, Chinese coins had a square hole in the middle)
stylish and confident middle-aged woman
Vala (Middle-earth)
middle of the night / the dead of night
to part one's hair in the middle
the middle of the month / (Tw) (coll.) postpartum care center (abbr. for 月子中心)
middle and old age
the middle stretches of a river / middle level / middle echelon / midstream
second-hand house / house acquired indirectly through a middle-man
shawarma, Middle Eastern sandwich wrap (loanword)
(perfumery) middle note / heart note
family of officials / family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)
square dancing, an exercise routine performed to music in public squares, parks and plazas, popular esp. among middle-aged and retired women in China
the four tones of Middle Chinese: level tone 平聲|平声, rising tone 上聲|上声, departing tone 去聲|去声 and entering tone 入聲|入声 / the four tones of Modern Standard Mandarin
middle-aged man (often with connotations of confidence, success and attractiveness)
fenestra cochleae (in middle ear)
inflammation of middle ear / otitis media
middle / halfway
velar consonants of Middle Chinese
family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)
stapes or stirrup bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration to the inner ear
(TCM) acupuncture point CV-17, located in the middle of the chest
Media (ancient Middle east region)
southern states of Wu and Chu / the middle and lower Yangtze valley
general middle school
the five directions 五方 east, south, west, north and middle
shawarma, Middle Eastern sandwich wrap (loanword)
Middle Chinese (linguistics)
Eustachian tube (linking the pharynx to the tympanic cavity 鼓室 of the middle ear) / auditory tube
queer uncle, referring to a young to middle-aged male pedophile (Internet slang)
(computing) man-in-the-middle attack

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