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中文

Zhōng wén

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word

中文 (Zhōng wén) means "Chinese language". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 中文 means

1. Chinese language

The characters in 中文

• 中zhōngwithin; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during
• 文wénlanguage; culture; writing

Example sentences

• 我教中文。
  I teach Chinese.
• 我写中文。
  I write Chinese.
• 她讲中文。
  She speaks Chinese.
• 她说中文。
  She speaks Chinese.
• 她写中文。
  She writes Chinese.
• 在学中文。
  I am learning Chinese.

Words starting with 中文

• 中文标准交换码Zhōng wén biāo zhǔn jiāo huàn mǎCSIC, Chinese standard interchange code used from 1992

Words containing 中文

• 香港中文大学Xiāng gǎng Zhōng wén Dà xuéChinese University of Hong Kong
• 独立中文笔会dú lì Zhōng wén bǐ huìIndependent Chinese PEN center
• 国家标准中文交换码guó jiā biāo zhǔn Zhōng wén jiāo huàn mǎCNS 11643, Chinese character coding adopted in Taiwan, 1986-1992

Where 中文 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Language & media (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read Zhōng wén correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.