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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 student / high school student
HSK 1
middle age
HSK 2
middle school
HSK 1
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 and elementary school
HSK 2
the middle; the inside / in the middle; within; between; among / during; in the meantime
HSK 1
middle (of a period of time) / medium-term (plan, forecast etc)
HSK 6
middle level (in a hierarchy)
HSK 2
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 finger
Middle East
Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei
middle third of a month
HSK 7-9
(anatomy) round window (one of the two openings from the middle ear into the inner ear)
first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school
tympanic cavity (of the middle ear)
middle class / bourgeois
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
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
middle-aged and elderly people
moderate faction / party of compromise / middle ground
middle-ranking
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *仲* | 仲* | *仲
second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers
the middle of the night
middle name / second given name
late Ming and early Qing / around the middle of the 17th century
(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
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-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)
middle class
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
fragment / piece / (of a film) to break in the middle of viewing
to stop in the middle of sth / intermittent / intermittence
to compromise / to take the middle road / a trade-off / eclectic
in the middle of the street / facing the street
middle game (in go or chess) / (share trading) mid-session / (abbr. for 中盤商|中盘商) distributor / wholesaler / middleman
2nd year in junior middle school / 2nd day of a lunar month / 2nd day of lunar New Year
to be between two parties (as in mediation) / to be in the middle; to be in between / (page layout) to be centered
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 five directions 五方 east, south, west, north and middle
mama-san, middle-aged woman who runs a brothel, bar etc (loanword from Japanese); madam
Middle Chinese (linguistics)
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 distance race
middle heavyweight (boxing etc)
flower drum, a type of double-skinned Chinese drum / folk dance popular in provinces around the middle reaches of the Yangtze / (bicycle wheel) hub
to part one's hair in the middle
the middle of the month / (Tw) (coll.) postpartum care center (abbr. for 月子中心)
medium pressure tube / middle pressure hose (diving)
queer uncle, referring to a young to middle-aged male pedophile (Internet slang)
(perfumery) middle note / heart note
Wuxia Gorge on the Changjiang or Yangtze, the middle of the Three Gorges 三峽|三峡
Baal, god worshipped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities
middle / halfway
family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)
middle of a river
inflammation of middle ear / otitis media
middle / halfway
general middle school
middle game (in go or chess)
round coin with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China
greasy food; oily food / (of food) greasy; oily; fatty / (neologism c. 2017) (of a middle-aged man) obnoxious; pretentious; vulgar
(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)
(idiom) in broad daylight; in the middle of the day / KMT emblem, a white sun on a blue background
(historical) middle period of a tripartite provincial exam / half-time; intermission / (sports) midfield; midcourt / (sports) midfielder
(palmistry) fate line; career prospects line (running vertically up the palm to the base of the middle finger) / (slang) cleavage
It's too late to plug the leak once ship is in the middle of the river. (idiom)
middle of the night / the dead of night
technical middle school education
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
family of officials / family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)
within the year / in the middle of the year / mid-year
(neologism) middle age; mature age; prime years
third year in junior middle school
southern states of Wu and Chu / the middle and lower Yangtze valley
middle-aged
middle / center / right in the middle or center / nub
karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)
stylish and confident middle-aged woman
Michel or Mitchell (name) / George Mitchell (1933-), US Democratic party politician and diplomat, influential in brokering Northern Ireland peace deal in 1990s, US Middle East special envoy from 2009
mid- (e.g. mid-century) / middle period
middle-aged man (often with connotations of confidence, success and attractiveness)

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