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中心

zhōng xīn 1–1

center; heart; core

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
中 · 心
Syllables
2
zhōng xīn
Frequency
Common
corpus count 661

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 中zhōng4 strokesHSK 1central; center, middle; in the midst of; hit (target); attain
  • 心xīn4 strokesHSK 2heart; mind, intelligence; soul; 5th lunar mansion, determinative star α Scorpii (Antares)

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 中心. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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