中年

Character by character

• 中zhōng4 strokesHSK 1central; center, middle; in the midst of; hit (target); attain
• 年nián6 strokesHSK 1year; new-years; person's age

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 中年. 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

• 年niánHSK 1

  grain; harvest (old); variant of 年

• 其中qí zhōngHSK 2

  among; in; included among these

• 中心zhōng xīnHSK 2

  center; heart; core

• 中国zhōng guóHSK 1

  China

• 今年jīn niánHSK 1

  this year

• 去年qù niánHSK 1

  last year

• 年轻nián qīngHSK 2

  young

• 集中jí zhōngHSK 3

  to concentrate; to centralize; to focus; centralized; concentrated; to put together

• 年代nián dàiHSK 3

  a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period

• 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

• 年龄nián língHSK 5

  (a person's) age

• 高中gāo zhōngHSK 2

  senior high school; abbr. for 高级中学

• 当中dāng zhōngHSK 3

  among; in the middle; in the center

• 明年míng niánHSK 1

  next year

• 中午zhōng wǔHSK 1

  noon; midday

• 当年dāng niánHSK 5

  in those days; then; in those years; during that time

• 新年xīn niánHSK 1

  New Year

• 年纪nián jìHSK 3

  age

• 青年qīng niánHSK 2

  youth; youthful years; young person; the young

• 空中kōng zhōngHSK 5

  in the sky; in the air