"Middle" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 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
 zhōng wān Middle
 zhōng yāng central / middle / center / central authorities (of a state)
 zhōng jiān between / intermediate / mid / middle
 yāo waist / lower back / pocket / middle / loins
 zhōng qī middle (of a period of time) / medium-term (plan, forecast etc)
 zhèng zhōng middle / center / right in the middle or center / nub
 zhōng within / among / in / middle / center / while (doing sth) / during / (dialect) OK / all right
 zhòng second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers
 bàn zhōng yāo middle / halfway
 bàn yāo middle / halfway
 zhèng zài just at (that time) / right in (that place) / right in the middle of (doing sth)
 zhōng xué middle school / CL:個|个[ge4]
 dāng zhōng among / in the middle / in the center
 zhōng jí middle level (in a hierarchy)
 zhōng nián middle age
 zhōng yuán Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei
 Zhōng dōng Middle East
 zhōng xún middle third of a month
 bàn yè midnight / in the middle of the night
 zhōng bù middle part / central section
 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
 chū yī first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school
 chū sān third year in junior middle school
 chū èr 2nd year in junior middle school / 2nd day of a lunar month / 2nd day of lunar New Year
 zhōng zhǐ middle finger
 zài (located) at / (to be) in / to exist / in the middle of doing sth / (indicating an action in progress)
 zhōng duàn middle section / middle period / middle area / mid-
 zhōng shì jì medieval / Middle Ages
 nián zhōng within the year / in the middle of the year / mid-year
 zhōng yóu the middle stretches of a river / middle level / middle echelon / midstream
 dāng jiē in the middle of the street / facing the street
 tiān tíng middle of the forehead / imperial court / heaven
 zhōng xiào middle ranking officer in Chinese army / lieutenant colonel / commander
 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
 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
 tóng qián copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China)
 zhōng chǎn middle class / bourgeois
 zhōng lǎo nián middle and old age
 zhōng yè mid- (e.g. mid-century) / middle period
 lán yāo (hitting) squarely in the middle / (slicing) across the middle / to hold by the waist
 zhōng chǎn jiē jí middle class
 jiàn xiē to stop in the middle of sth / intermittent / intermittence
 dāng dào in the middle of the road / to be in the way / to hold power / (fig.) to predominate / to be in vogue
 ěr mó eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
 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
 chū jí zhōng xué junior high school / junior middle school
 zhōng děng jiào yù secondary education / middle school education
 zhōng děng zhuān yè xué xiào specialized middle school
 zhé zhōng to compromise / to take the middle road / a trade-off / eclectic
 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
 zhōng ěr yán inflammation of middle ear / otitis media
 ěr gǔ eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
 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
 Wū Xiá Wuxia Gorge on the Changjiang or Yangtze, the middle of the Three Gorges 三峽|三峡[San1 Xia2]
 piān ān content to hold a small part of the territory / fig. forced to relinquish the middle ground / forced to move away
 gǔ mó eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
 zhōng cháng pǎo middle distance race
 zhōng ěr middle ear
 rù shēng entering tone / checked tone / one of the four tones of Middle Chinese
 lán huā zhǐ hand gesture in traditional dances (joined thumb and middle finger, the rest extended)
 zhèng dāng zhōng dead center / the very middle
 shé yīn coronal consonants of Middle Chinese
 kǎn r jǐng karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)
 dā lian cloth pouch open in the middle, forming two bags / jacket worn for Chinese wrestling
 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])
 zhōng jú middle game (in go or chess)
 duàn piàn fragment / piece / (of a film) to break in the middle of viewing
 zhōng jiān pài moderate faction / party of compromise / middle ground
 yān gǔ guǎn Eustachian tube (linking the pharynx 咽[yan1] to the tympanic cavity 鼓室[gu3 shi4] of the middle ear) / auditory tube
 gǔ shì tympanic cavity (of the middle ear)
  mid-latitudes / middle latitudes
 ào plain in the middle of the mountains / used in place names, esp. in 浙江[Zhe4 jiang1] and 福建[Fu2 jian4]
 qīng tiān bái rì in broad daylight / in the middle of the day / KMT emblem, a white sun on a blue background
 zhēn gǔ incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone
 yuè zhōng middle of month
 tīng gǔ ossicles (in the middle ear) / also written 聽小骨|听小骨
 chuí gǔ malleus or hammer bone of middle ear
 Bā lì Baal, god worshipped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities
 zhōng gǔ Hàn yǔ Middle Chinese (linguistics)
 zhōng yā guǎn medium pressure tube / middle pressure hose (diving)
 zhōng dōng guó jiā Nations of the Middle East / Middle East countries
 zhōng děng zhuān yè jiào yù technical middle school education
 zhōng děng jì shù xué xiào technical middle school / polytechnic
 zhōng děng pǔ tōng jiào yù general middle school education
 zhōng diào (perfumery) middle note / heart note
 zhōng jiān míng middle name / second given name
线 zhōng jiān lù xiàn middle road (in politics)
 rén dìng middle of the night / the dead of night
 luǎn yuán chuāng oval window between middle and inner ear
 Wú Chǔ southern states of Wu and Chu / the middle and lower Yangtze valley
 guān huàn rén jiā family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)
 huàn mén family of officials / family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)
 hòu xīn middle of the back
 Míng mò Qīng chū late Ming and early Qing / around the middle of the 17th century
 pǔ tōng zhōng xué general middle school
 mò fú the third of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏[san1 fu2]), which typically runs over the middle ten days of August
西 dōng nán xī běi zhōng the five directions 五方 / east, south, west, north and middle
 cì zhòng liàng jí middle heavyweight (boxing etc)
 shā wēi mǎ shawarma, Middle Eastern sandwich wrap (loanword)
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