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HSK
middle school
HSK 1
middle-school student / high school student
HSK 1
the middle; the inside / in the middle; within; between; among / during; in the meantime
HSK 1
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  *中* | 中* | *中
within; among; in / middle; center / while (doing sth); during / (dialect) OK; all right
HSK 1
middle and elementary school
HSK 2
middle level (in a hierarchy)
HSK 2
middle age
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
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  *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
Media (ancient Middle east region)
cloth pouch open in the middle, forming two bags / jacket worn for Chinese wrestling
Vala (Middle-earth)
middle finger
third year in junior middle school
Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei
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
middle-ranking
(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 of the back
the middle of the month / (Tw) (coll.) postpartum care center (abbr. for 月子中心)
stylish and confident middle-aged woman
middle and old age
malleus or hammer bone of middle ear
within the year / in the middle of the year / mid-year
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *仲* | 仲* | *仲
second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers
to stop in the middle of sth / intermittent / intermittence
to part one's hair in the middle
mid- (e.g. mid-century) / middle period
greasy food; oily food / (of food) greasy; oily; fatty / (neologism c. 2017) (of a middle-aged man) obnoxious; pretentious; vulgar
middle distance race
in the middle of the street / facing the street
hand gesture in traditional dances (joined thumb and middle finger, the rest extended)
middle / center / right in the middle or center / nub
to leave in the middle of the play / (fig.) to leave before the matter is concluded
middle road (in politics)
family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)
the middle stretches of a river / middle level / middle echelon / midstream
middle-aged
entering tone / checked tone / one of the four tones of Middle Chinese
(hitting) squarely in the middle / (slicing) across the middle / to hold by the waist
(perfumery) middle note / heart note
copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China)
inflammation of middle ear / otitis media
dead center; the very middle
middle class
specialized middle school
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
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
moderate faction / party of compromise / middle ground
fragment / piece / (of a film) to break in the middle of viewing
middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age
Wuxia Gorge on the Changjiang or Yangtze, the middle of the Three Gorges 三峽|三峡
middle shift; swing shift; early night shift / middle class in kindergarten (4–5 year olds)
(category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
middle ear
middle of the forehead / imperial court / heaven
Baal, god worshipped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities
in the middle of the road / to be in the way / to hold power / (fig.) to predominate / to be in vogue
middle ranking officer in Chinese army / lieutenant colonel / commander
first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school
to know nothing about the beginning, the middle or the end / to know nothing at all
2nd year in junior middle school / 2nd day of a lunar month / 2nd day of lunar New Year
velar consonants of Middle Chinese
Horqin Left Middle banner or Khorchin Züün Garyn Dund khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
secondary education / middle school education
square dancing, an exercise routine performed to music in public squares, parks and plazas, popular esp. among middle-aged and retired women in China
family of officials / family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)
middle heavyweight (boxing etc)
attached (or affiliated) secondary (or middle) school / abbr. for 附屬中學|附属中学
(idiom) in broad daylight; in the middle of the day / KMT emblem, a white sun on a blue background
to be between two parties (as in mediation) / to be in the middle; to be in between / (page layout) to be centered
middle dot (·), a punctuation mark used in Chinese text to separate the parts of a transliterated foreign name or elements in a list
incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone
entrance exam for senior middle school
tympanic cavity (of the middle ear)
venerable middle-aged or elderly man, usually wearing an artificial beard (in Chinese opera)
middle game (in go or chess)
the “five red categories” (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. poor and lower-middle peasants, workers, revolutionary soldiers, revolutionary cadres, and revolutionary martyrs
karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)
Middle East
to compromise / to take the middle road / a trade-off / eclectic
content to hold a small part of the territory / fig. forced to relinquish the middle ground / forced to move away
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
middle / halfway
(TCM) middle burner, the part of the body within the abdominal cavity (between the diaphragm and the navel, including the spleen and stomach)
junior high school / junior middle school
coronal consonants of Middle Chinese
middle / halfway
(historical) middle period of a tripartite provincial exam / half-time; intermission / (sports) midfield; midcourt / (sports) midfielder
(coll., humorous) money (so named because in former times, Chinese coins had a square hole in the middle)
middle section; middle period; middle area; mid-
middle game (in go or chess) / (share trading) mid-session / (abbr. for 中盤商|中盘商) distributor / wholesaler / middleman
shawarma, Middle Eastern sandwich wrap (loanword)

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