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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 and elementary school
HSK 2
middle age
HSK 2
middle level (in a hierarchy)
HSK 2
middle part; central section; central region
HSK 3
midnight / in the middle of the night
HSK 2
central / middle / center / central authorities (of a state)
HSK 5
middle (of a period of time) / medium-term (plan, forecast etc)
HSK 6
among / in the middle / in the center
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
entrance exam for senior middle school
middle class / bourgeois
middle finger
Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei
(anatomy) round window (one of the two openings from the middle ear into the inner ear)
middle third of a month
HSK 7-9
first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school
tympanic cavity (of the middle ear)
(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
the third of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which typically runs over the middle ten days of August
middle ranking officer in Chinese army / lieutenant colonel / commander
middle ear
middle section; middle period; middle area; mid-
the middle generation (between senior and junior cohorts, esp. in a profession)
middle and old age
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
(historical) middle period of a tripartite provincial exam / half-time; intermission / (sports) midfield; midcourt / (sports) midfielder
specialized middle school
middle-aged and elderly people
Middle East
the five directions 五方 east, south, west, north and middle
middle distance race
middle road (in politics)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *仲* | 仲* | *仲
second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers
the middle of the night
late Ming and early Qing / around the middle of the 17th century
incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone
middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age
black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground)
middle class
middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age
middle shift; swing shift; early night shift / middle class in kindergarten (4–5 year olds)
stapes or stirrup bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration to the inner ear
middle-ranking
the middle stretches of a river / middle level / middle echelon / midstream
second-hand house / house acquired indirectly through a middle-man
content to hold a small part of the territory / fig. forced to relinquish the middle ground / forced to move away
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
to stop in the middle of sth / intermittent / intermittence
Middle Chinese (linguistics)
mid- (e.g. mid-century) / middle period
shawarma, Middle Eastern sandwich wrap (loanword)
to compromise / to take the middle road / a trade-off / eclectic
(hitting) squarely in the middle / (slicing) across the middle / to hold by the waist
2nd year in junior middle school / 2nd day of a lunar month / 2nd day of lunar New Year
middle game (in go or chess) / (share trading) mid-session / (abbr. for 中盤商|中盘商) distributor / wholesaler / middleman
moderate faction / party of compromise / middle ground
to be between two parties (as in mediation) / to be in the middle; to be in between / (page layout) to be centered
junior high school / junior middle school
entering tone / checked tone / one of the four tones of Middle Chinese
family of officials / family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)
flower drum, a type of double-skinned Chinese drum / folk dance popular in provinces around the middle reaches of the Yangtze / (bicycle wheel) hub
medieval / Middle Ages
to part one's hair in the middle
the “five red categories” (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. poor and lower-middle peasants, workers, revolutionary soldiers, revolutionary cadres, and revolutionary martyrs
the middle of the month / (Tw) (coll.) postpartum care center (abbr. for 月子中心)
Wuxia Gorge on the Changjiang or Yangtze, the middle of the Three Gorges 三峽|三峡
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
greasy food; oily food / (of food) greasy; oily; fatty / (neologism c. 2017) (of a middle-aged man) obnoxious; pretentious; vulgar
queer uncle, referring to a young to middle-aged male pedophile (Internet slang)
Baal, god worshipped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities
square dancing, an exercise routine performed to music in public squares, parks and plazas, popular esp. among middle-aged and retired women in China
middle / halfway
family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)
middle of a river
ossicles (of the middle ear) / three ossicles, acting as levers to amplify sound, namely: stapes or stirrup bone 鐙骨|镫骨, incus or anvil bone 砧骨, malleus or hammer bone 錘骨|锤骨
inflammation of middle ear / otitis media
middle / halfway
middle game (in go or chess)
(palmistry) fate line; career prospects line (running vertically up the palm to the base of the middle finger) / (slang) cleavage
mama-san, middle-aged woman who runs a brothel, bar etc (loanword from Japanese); madam
malleus or hammer bone of middle ear
(idiom) in broad daylight; in the middle of the day / KMT emblem, a white sun on a blue background
(computing) man-in-the-middle attack
middle of the night / the dead of night
Eustachian tube (linking the pharynx to the tympanic cavity 鼓室 of the middle ear) / auditory tube
middle of the forehead / imperial court / heaven
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
within the year / in the middle of the year / mid-year
third year in junior middle school
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-aged
karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)
middle / center / right in the middle or center / nub
middle name / second given name
round coin with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China
stylish and confident middle-aged woman

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