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中央

zhōng yāng 1–1

central; middle; center; central authorities (of a state)

HSK level
HSK 5
HSK 2.0 level 6 · HSK 3.0 level 5
Characters
2
中 · 央
Syllables
2
zhōng yāng
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,962

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 中zhōng4 strokesHSK 1central; center, middle; in the midst of; hit (target); attain
  • 央yāng5 strokesHSK 5center, conclude, run out; beg

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

Example sentences

  • 图书馆位于市中央。

    Tú shū guǎn wèi yú shì zhōng yāng

    The library is in the middle of the city.

  • 城市中央有一座公园。

    Chéng shì zhōng yāng yǒu yī zuò gōng yuán

    There is a park in the middle of the city.

  • 你知道中央情报局的什么？

    Nǐ zhī dào Zhōng yāng Qíng bào jú de shén me

    What do you know about the CIA?

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

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

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