中午
zhōng wǔ 1–3
noon; midday
- Characters
- 2
- 中 · 午
- Syllables
- 2
- zhōng wǔ
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 2,600
Part of speech: t
Character by character
- 中zhōng4 strokesHSK 1central; center, middle; in the midst of; hit (target); attain
- 午wǔ4 strokesHSK 1seventh earthly branch
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
现在才中午。
Xiàn zài cái zhōng wǔ
It is just noon.
让她中午过来。
Ràng tā zhōng wǔ guò lai
Tell her to come at noon.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 中午. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 中zhōngHSK 1
within; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during; (dialect) OK; all right
- 其中qí zhōngHSK 2
among; in; included among these
- 中心zhōng xīnHSK 2
center; heart; core
- 中国zhōng guóHSK 1
China
- 下午xià wǔHSK 1
afternoon; p.m.
- 集中jí zhōngHSK 3
to concentrate; to centralize; to focus; centralized; concentrated; to put together
- 之中zhī zhōngHSK 5
inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during
- 中间zhōng jiānHSK 1
the middle; the inside; in the middle; within; between; among; during; in the meantime
- 中央zhōng yāngHSK 5
central; middle; center; central authorities (of a state)
- 心中xīn zhōngHSK 2
central point; in one's thoughts; in one's heart
- 高中gāo zhōngHSK 2
senior high school; abbr. for 高级中学
- 上午shàng wǔHSK 1
morning
- 当中dāng zhōngHSK 3
among; in the middle; in the center
- 空中kōng zhōngHSK 5
in the sky; in the air
- 中学zhōng xuéHSK 1
middle school
- 午餐wǔ cānHSK 2
lunch; luncheon
- 午饭wǔ fànHSK 1
lunch
- 中毒zhòng dúHSK 5
to be poisoned
- 从中cóng zhōngHSK 5
from within; therefrom
- 途中tú zhōngHSK 4
en route
- 中华民族zhōng huá mín zúHSK 3
the Chinese nation; the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China)
- 中部zhōng bùHSK 3
middle part; central section
- 中文zhōng wénHSK 1
Chinese language
- 中年zhōng niánHSK 2
middle age