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中文

zhōng wén 1–2

Chinese language

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
中 · 文
Syllables
2
zhōng wén
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 6,459

Part of speech: nz

Character by character

  • 中zhōng4 strokesHSK 1central; center, middle; in the midst of; hit (target); attain
  • 文wén4 strokesHSK 1literature, culture, writing

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我教中文。

    Wǒ jiāo Zhōng wén

    I teach Chinese.

  • 他说中文。

    Tā shuō Zhōng wén

    He speaks Chinese.

  • 她说中文。

    Tā shuō Zhōng wén

    She speaks Chinese.

  • 我会说中文。

    W hu shu zh ngw n

    I can speak Chinese.

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 中文. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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