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Chinese edit

 
middle; centre; within
middle; centre; within; among; in; while (doing sth); during; China; Chinese; hit (the mark)
heart; mind
simp. and trad.
(中心)
anagram 心中

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (9) (16)
Final () (2) (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter trjuwng sim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈɨuŋ/ /siɪm/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈiuŋ/ /sim/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶiuŋ/ /sjem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈuwŋ/ /sim/
Li
Rong
/ȶiuŋ/ /siəm/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭuŋ/ /sĭĕm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯uŋ/ /si̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhōng xīn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zung1 sam1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhōng xīn
Middle
Chinese
‹ trjuwng › ‹ sim ›
Old
Chinese
/*truŋ/ /*səm/
English center heart

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 17407 13801
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tuŋ/ /*slɯm/

Noun edit

中心

  1. centre (point in the interior of a circle or sphere)
  2. centre (main part of a thing); core
  3. centre (place where some function or activity occurs)
    托兒中心托儿中心  ―  tuō'ér zhōngxīn  ―  childcare centre
    培訓中心培训中心  ―  péixùn zhōngxīn  ―  training centre
    社區衛生服務中心 [MSC, trad.]
    社区卫生服务中心 [MSC, simp.]
    shèqū wèishēng fúwù zhōngxīn [Pinyin]
    community healthcare center

Synonyms edit

Proper noun edit

中心

  1. (~區) a former name of Siming District (思明) in Xiamen, Fujian, China during the late 1940s
  2. () Zhongxin (a village in Wudian, Guangshui, Suizhou, Hubei, China)

Adverb edit

中心

  1. (Classical) in the heart; with all one's heart; from the bottom of one's heart

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (中心):

See also edit

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
ちゅう
Grade: 1
しん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Chinese compound 中心 (MC trjuwng sim, literally “heart in the middle”). Compare modern Hakka reading chûng-sîm.

From (chū, center) + (shin, core).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(ちゅう)(しん) (chūshinちゆうしん (tyuusin)?

  1. center, middle, heart, core (physical center)
    • 1931, 宮本百合子, ワルシャワのメーデー:
      広場(ひろば)中心(ちゅうしん)()くと、やっと、行列(ぎょうれつ)らしいものがあった。
      Hiroba no chūshin e iku to, yatto, gyōretsu-rashī mono ga atta.
      She went to the middle of the plaza and finally found a sort of queue.
  2. center, hub (most important area of activity)
    • 1908, 夏目漱石, 坑夫:
      (こと)(おこ)りを調(しら)べて()ると、中心(ちゅうしん)には一人(ひとり)少女(しょうじょ)がいる。
      Koto no okori o shirabete miru to, chūshin ni wa hitori no shōjo ga iru.
      If you investigate its origins, you'll find one girl at the center of it all.
  3. crux, main point
    • 1921, 豊島与志雄, 反抗:
      今後(こんご)生活(せいかつ)問題(もんだい)中心(ちゅうしん)だった。
      Kongo no seikatsu ga mondai no chūshin datta.
      The main issue was how we would live from then on.
Derived terms edit
Idioms edit
See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
なか
Grade: 1
こ > ご
Grade: 2
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 中心 – see the following entry.
中子なかご
[noun] center
[noun] This term needs a translation to English.
(This term, 中心, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References edit

  1. ^ Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, Nationwide Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja in this term

Noun edit

中心 (jungsim) (hangeul 중심)

  1. Hanja form? of 중심 (center, middle).

Vietnamese edit

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun edit

中心

  1. chữ Hán form of trung tâm (center).