中间

Character by character

• 中zhōng4 strokesHSK 1central; center, middle; in the midst of; hit (target); attain
• 间jiān7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 間midpoint, space; place, locality

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

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 中间. 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

• 时间shí jiānHSK 1

  time; period

• 其中qí zhōngHSK 2

  among; in; included among these

• 之间zhī jiānHSK 4

  (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间)

• 间jiānHSK 1

  between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for rooms

• 中心zhōng xīnHSK 2

  center; heart; core

• 中国zhōng guóHSK 1

  China

• 集中jí zhōngHSK 3

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

• 空间kōng jiānHSK 4

  space; room; (fig.) scope; leeway; (astronomy) outer space; (physics, math.) space

• 房间fáng jiānHSK 1

  room

• 之中zhī zhōngHSK 5

  inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during

• 期间qī jiānHSK 4

  period of time; time; time period; period

• 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

• 当中dāng zhōngHSK 3

  among; in the middle; in the center

• 中午zhōng wǔHSK 1

  noon; midday

• 空中kōng zhōngHSK 5

  in the sky; in the air

• 瞬间shùn jiānHSK 7

  in an instant; in a flash

• 中学zhōng xuéHSK 1

  middle school

• 中毒zhòng dúHSK 5

  to be poisoned

• 人间rén jiānHSK 5

  the human world; the earth

• 从中cóng zhōngHSK 5

  from within; therefrom

• 间谍jiàn diéHSK 7

  spy