中文
zhōng wén 1–2
Chinese language
- Characters
- 2
- 中 · 文
- Syllables
- 2
- zhōng wén
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 6,459
Part of speech: nz
Character by character
- 中zhōng4 strokesHSK 1central; center, middle; in the midst of; hit (target); attain
- 文wén4 strokesHSK 1literature, culture, writing
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
我教中文。
Wǒ jiāo Zhōng wén
I teach Chinese.
他说中文。
Tā shuō Zhōng wén
He speaks Chinese.
她说中文。
Tā shuō Zhōng wén
She speaks Chinese.
我会说中文。
W hu shu zh ngw n
I can speak Chinese.
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 中文. 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
- 其中qí zhōngHSK 2
among; in; included among these
- 中心zhōng xīnHSK 2
center; heart; core
- 中国zhōng guóHSK 1
China
- 集中jí zhōngHSK 3
to concentrate; to centralize; to focus; centralized; concentrated; to put together
- 文件wén jiànHSK 3
document; file
- 文wénHSK 7
language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67
- 之中zhī zhōngHSK 5
inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during
- 文化wén huàHSK 3
culture; civilization; cultural
- 中间zhōng jiānHSK 1
the middle; the inside; in the middle; within; between; among; during; in the meantime
- 文章wén zhāngHSK 3
article; essay; literary works; writings; hidden meaning
- 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
- 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
- 中午zhōng wǔHSK 1
noon; midday
- 文明wén míngHSK 3
civilized; civilization; culture
- 空中kōng zhōngHSK 5
in the sky; in the air
- 中学zhōng xuéHSK 1
middle school
- 文字wén zìHSK 3
character; script; writing; written language; writing style; phraseology
- 论文lùn wénHSK 4
paper; treatise; thesis; to discuss a paper or thesis (old)
- 文学wén xuéHSK 3
literature
- 中毒zhòng dúHSK 5
to be poisoned
- 从中cóng zhōngHSK 5
from within; therefrom