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中间

zhōng jiān

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 中間

中间 (zhōng jiān) means "the middle; the inside". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 中间 means

1. the middle; the inside
2. in the middle; within; between; among
3. during; in the meantime

The characters in 中间

• 中zhōngwithin; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during
• 间jiānbetween; among; within a definite time or space

Example sentences

• 路中间有一辆卡车。
  A truck was standing in the middle of the road.
• 老虎躺在笼子的中间。
  Lǎohǔ tǎng zài lóngzi de zhōngjiān.
  The tiger laid in the middle of the cage.
• 公园的中间有一棵大树
  In the middle of the park there is a big tree.

Words starting with 中间

• 中间人zhōng jiān rénintermediary; mediator
• 中间件zhōng jiān jiànmiddleware
• 中间商zhōng jiān shāngmiddleman; broker
• 中间名zhōng jiān míngmiddle name; second given name
• 中间路线zhōng jiān lù xiànmiddle road (in politics)
• 中间派zhōng jiān pàimoderate faction; party of compromise; middle ground
• 中间神经元zhōng jiān shén jīng yuáninterneuron
• 中间音zhōng jiān yīn(phonetics) medial
• 中间层zhōng jiān céng(meteorology) mesosphere
• 中间人攻击zhōng jiān rén gōng jī(computing) man-in-the-middle attack
• 中间纤维zhōng jiān xiān wéiintermediate filament

Sounds the same

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

• 中坚core; nucleus; backbone

Where 中间 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Directions & Location (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhōng jiān correctly.
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