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中旬

zhōng xún

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

中旬 (zhōng xún) means "the middle third of a month". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 中旬 means

1. middle third of a month

The characters in 中旬

• 中zhōngwithin; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during
• 旬xún(bound form) ten-day period; one of the three ten-day divisions of a month…

Example sentences

• 在日本，梅雨季节从六月初持续到七月中旬。
  In Japan, the rainy season lasts from the beginning of June to the middle of July.
• 在日本，在我们的雨季常常下雨，雨季一般在六月中旬至七月中旬。
  Zài Rìběn, zài wǒmen de yǔjì chángcháng xiàyǔ, yǔjì yībān zài Liùyuè zhōngxún zhì Qīyuè zhōngxún.
  In Japan, it rains quite a bit during our rainy season which is from mid-June until mid-July.

Where 中旬 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Unification, Communication & Order (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
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