中年
zhōng nián 1–2
middle age
- Characters
- 2
- 中 · 年
- Syllables
- 2
- zhōng nián
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 6,470
Part of speech: t
Character by character
- 中zhōng4 strokesHSK 1central; center, middle; in the midst of; hit (target); attain
- 年nián6 strokesHSK 1year; new-years; person's age
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 中年. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 中zhōngHSK 1
within; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during; (dialect) OK; all right
- 年niánHSK 1
grain; harvest (old); variant of 年
- 其中qí zhōngHSK 2
among; in; included among these
- 中心zhōng xīnHSK 2
center; heart; core
- 中国zhōng guóHSK 1
China
- 今年jīn niánHSK 1
this year
- 去年qù niánHSK 1
last year
- 年轻nián qīngHSK 2
young
- 集中jí zhōngHSK 3
to concentrate; to centralize; to focus; centralized; concentrated; to put together
- 年代nián dàiHSK 3
a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period
- 之中zhī zhōngHSK 5
inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during
- 中间zhōng jiānHSK 1
the middle; the inside; in the middle; within; between; among; during; in the meantime
- 中央zhōng yāngHSK 5
central; middle; center; central authorities (of a state)
- 心中xīn zhōngHSK 2
central point; in one's thoughts; in one's heart
- 年龄nián língHSK 5
(a person's) age
- 高中gāo zhōngHSK 2
senior high school; abbr. for 高级中学
- 当中dāng zhōngHSK 3
among; in the middle; in the center
- 明年míng niánHSK 1
next year
- 中午zhōng wǔHSK 1
noon; midday
- 当年dāng niánHSK 5
in those days; then; in those years; during that time
- 新年xīn niánHSK 1
New Year
- 年纪nián jìHSK 3
age
- 青年qīng niánHSK 2
youth; youthful years; young person; the young
- 空中kōng zhōngHSK 5
in the sky; in the air