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中年

zhōng nián

HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

中年 (zhōng nián) means "middle age". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 中年 means

1. middle age

The characters in 中年

• 中zhōngwithin; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during
• 年niányear

Example sentences

• 她是个中年胖女人。
  Tā shì gèzhōng nián pàng nǚrén.
  She's a middle-aged fat woman.

Sounds the same

Read zhōng nián, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 终年entire year; throughout the year; age at death

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