お中

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of お中 – see the following entry.

[noun] a meal, especially of rice (from the way that the main serving dish would be placed in the 中 (naka, “middle”) of the table)

[noun] cotton batting (from the way that batting was used in the 中 (naka, “inside”) of cushions and quilts)

[noun] (historical) the title of a maid working in the inner part of a samurai family's house during the Muromachi period

(This term, お中, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)