仲 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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zhòng

middle brother

The middle 中 person 亻; 中 also provides the pronunciation

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén

person

中 Sound Meaning component

zhōng, zhòng

central

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

仲

zhòng

middle brother; go between, mediator; surname; second month of a season; middle; intermediate; second amongst brothers

仲

Zhòng

surname Zhong

Most common words with 仲

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	仲	middle
	仲裁	arbitration
	仲夏	midsummer
	仲介	middleman
	杜仲	eucommia (a kind of rubber tree)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*N-truŋ-s	drjuwngH	zhòng	middle (of brothers)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.0732% of movies

3201st most common character in movies

1706th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	6
Unicode	U+4EF2
Shuowen	“仲，中也。从人，从中，中亦聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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