中 zhōng within / among / in / middle / center / while (doing sth) / during / (dialect) OK / all right syn 中间 中間 zhōng jiān the middle / the inside / in the middle / within / between / among / during / in the meantime syn 当中 當中 dāng zhōng among / in the middle / in the center syn 中央 zhōng yāng central / middle / center / central authorities (of a state) syn 半夜 bàn yè midnight / in the middle of the night syn 中学 中學 zhōng xué middle school syn 中校 zhōng xiào middle ranking officer in Chinese army / lieutenant colonel / commander 米歇尔 米歇爾 mǐ xiē ěr Michel or Mitchell (name) / George Mitchell (1933-), US Democratic party politician and diplomat, influential in brokering Northern Ireland peace deal in 1990s, US Middle East special envoy from 2009 大地 dà dì earth / mother earth syn 中部 zhōng bù middle part / central section / central region syn 中年 zhōng nián middle age syn 中东 中東 zhōng dōng Middle East 正中 zhèng zhōng middle / center / right in the middle or center / nub syn 中世纪 中世紀 zhōng shì jì medieval / Middle Ages 中场 中場 zhōng chǎng middle period of a tripartite provincial exam (in former times) / midfield / mid-court (in sports) / half-time / intermission half-way through a performance 中产阶级 中產階級 zhōng chǎn jiē jí middle class 中期 zhōng qī middle (of a period of time) / medium-term (plan, forecast etc) syn 中学生 中學生 zhōng xué shēng middle-school student / high school student 间歇 間歇 jiàn xiē to stop in the middle of sth / intermittent / intermittence syn 中指 zhōng zhǐ middle finger syn 铺天盖地 鋪天蓋地 pū tiān gài dì lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom) / fig. earth-shattering / omnipresent / of universal importance syn 油腻 油膩 yóu nì greasy food / oily food / (of food) greasy / oily / fatty / (neologism c. 2017) (of a middle-aged man) obnoxious / pretentious / vulgar syn 中层 中層 zhōng céng middle-ranking 天庭 tiān tíng middle of the forehead / imperial court / heaven syn 折中 zhé zhōng to compromise / to take the middle road / a trade-off / eclectic syn 中旬 zhōng xún middle third of a month 三军 三軍 sān jūn (in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force syn 中级 中級 zhōng jí middle level (in a hierarchy) syn 初一 chū yī first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school syn 中游 zhōng yóu the middle stretches of a river / middle level / middle echelon / midstream syn 当道 當道 dāng dào in the middle of the road / to be in the way / to hold power / (fig.) to predominate / to be in vogue syn 接地 jiē dì earth (electric connection) / to earth 耳膜 ěr mó eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane 居中 jū zhōng to be between two parties (as in mediation) / to be in the middle / to be in between / (page layout) to be centered syn 中古 zhōng gǔ medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand 中原 zhōng yuán Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei syn 初三 chū sān third year in junior middle school 中叶 中葉 zhōng yè mid- (e.g. mid-century) / middle period syn 中班 zhōng bān middle shift / swing shift / early night shift / middle class in kindergarten (4-5 year olds) 耳鼓 ěr gǔ eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane syn 初二 chū èr 2nd year in junior middle school / 2nd day of a lunar month / 2nd day of lunar New Year 中段 zhōng duàn middle section / middle period / middle area / mid- syn 老生 lǎo shēng venerable middle-aged or elderly man, usually wearing an artificial beard (in Chinese opera) syn 四声 四聲 sì shēng the four tones of Middle Chinese: level tone 平聲|平声, rising tone 上聲|上声, departing tone 去聲|去声 and entering tone 入聲|入声 / the four tones of Modern Standard Mandarin syn 中耳 zhōng ěr middle ear syn 铜钱 銅錢 tóng qián copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China) syn 中老年 zhōng lǎo nián middle and old age syn 拦腰 攔腰 lán yāo (hitting) squarely in the middle / (slicing) across the middle / to hold by the waist syn 中耳炎 zhōng ěr yán inflammation of middle ear / otitis media 中长跑 中長跑 zhōng cháng pǎo middle distance race 兰花指 蘭花指 lán huā zhǐ hand gesture in traditional dances (joined thumb and middle finger, the rest extended) syn 正当中 正當中 zhèng dāng zhōng dead center / the very middle syn 中盘 中盤 zhōng pán middle game (in go or chess) / (share trading) mid-session / (abbr. for 中盤商|中盘商[zhong1 pan2 shang1]) distributor / wholesaler / middleman 初级中学 初級中學 chū jí zhōng xué junior high school / junior middle school syn 二手房 èr shǒu fáng second-hand house / house acquired indirectly through a middle-man 附中 fù zhōng attached (or affiliated) secondary (or middle) school / abbr. for 附屬中學|附属中学[fu4 shu3 zhong1 xue2] syn 年中 nián zhōng within the year / in the middle of the year / mid-year 当街 當街 dāng jiē in the middle of the street / facing the street 中青年 zhōng qīng nián middle-aged 中产 中產 zhōng chǎn middle class / bourgeois 地藏 dì zàng Kṣitigarbha, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva 中等教育 zhōng děng jiào yù secondary education / middle school education 中等专业学校 中等專業學校 zhōng děng zhuān yè xué xiào specialized middle school 花鼓 huā gǔ flower drum, a type of double-skinned Chinese drum / folk dance popular in provinces around the middle reaches of the Yangtze / (bicycle wheel) hub 巫峡 巫峽 wū xiá Wuxia Gorge on the Changjiang or Yangtze, the middle of the Three Gorges 三峽|三峡[San1 Xia2] 贫下中农 貧下中農 pín xià zhōng nóng (category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants) 偏安 piān ān content to hold a small part of the territory / fig. forced to relinquish the middle ground / forced to move away 入声 入聲 rù shēng entering tone / checked tone / one of the four tones of Middle Chinese 舌音 shé yīn coronal consonants of Middle Chinese 半老徐娘 bàn lǎo xú niáng middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age 腰 yāo the waist and lower back / (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food) / the waist of trousers or a skirt / (metonym) money pouch / pocket / (bound form) the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc) syn 仲 zhòng second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers syn 空肠 空腸 kōng cháng jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸|十二指肠[shi2 er4 zhi3 chang2] and ileum 回腸|回肠[hui2 chang2]) 中间派 中間派 zhōng jiān pài moderate faction / party of compromise / middle ground 壤 rǎng (bound form) soil / earth / (literary) the earth (contrasted with heaven 天[tian1]) syn 褡裢 褡褳 dā lian cloth pouch open in the middle, forming two bags / jacket worn for Chinese wrestling syn 坎儿井 坎兒井 kǎn r jǐng karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East) 中局 zhōng jú middle game (in go or chess) 断片 斷片 duàn piàn fragment / piece / (of a film) to break in the middle of viewing 咽鼓管 yān gǔ guǎn Eustachian tube (linking the pharynx 咽[yan1] to the tympanic cavity 鼓室[gu3 shi4] of the middle ear) / auditory tube 鼓室 gǔ shì tympanic cavity (of the middle ear) syn 中纬度 mid-latitudes / middle latitudes syn 岙 嶴 ào plain in the middle of the mountains / used in place names, esp. in 浙江[Zhe4 jiang1] and 福建[Fu2 jian4] 地 dì earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:片[pian4] syn 人生 rén shēng life (one's time on earth) 地球 dì qiú the earth syn 世上 shì shàng on earth syn 地盘 地盤 dì pán domain / territory under one's control / foundation of a building / base of operations / crust of earth syn 人间 人間 rén jiān the human world / the earth syn 世间 世間 shì jiān world / earth syn 泥土 ní tǔ earth / soil / mud / clay syn 大气 大氣 dà qì atmosphere (surrounding the earth) / imposing / impressive / stylish syn 天地 tiān dì heaven and earth / world / scope / field of activity syn 地表 dì biǎo the surface (of the earth) 地心 dì xīn the earth's core / geocentric syn 有生之年 yǒu shēng zhī nián (idiom) during one's lifetime / while one is on this earth / in one's remaining years syn 天翻地覆 tiān fān dì fù sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom) / fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head syn 天涯海角 tiān yá hǎi jiǎo the ends of the earth / separated worlds apart syn 翻天覆地 fān tiān fù dì sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom) / fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head syn 