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Chinese

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middle; centre; within
middle; centre; within; among; in; while (doing something); during; China; Chinese; hit (the mark)
 
man; person; people
simp. and trad.
(中人)
anagram 人中

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (9) (38)
Final () (2) (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter trjuwng nyin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈɨuŋ/ /ȵiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈiuŋ/ /ȵin/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶiuŋ/ /ȵʑjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈuwŋ/ /ȵin/
Li
Rong
/ȶiuŋ/ /ȵiĕn/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭuŋ/ /ȵʑĭĕn/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯uŋ/ /ȵʑi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhōng rén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zung1 jan4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhōng rén
Middle
Chinese
‹ trjuwng › ‹ nyin ›
Old
Chinese
/*truŋ/ /*ni[ŋ]/
English center (other) person

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 10800
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tuŋ/ /*njin/

Noun

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中人

  1. middleman; go-between; intermediary; mediator
  2. (literary) person of average ability; average person

Synonyms

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  • (middleman):

Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (中人):

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
ちゅう
Grade: 1
にん
Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(ちゅう)(にん) (chūnin

  1. an age category for differentiating entrance fees, for ages higher than 小人 and lower than 大人.
  2. go-between, mediator

Korean

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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中人 (jung'in) (hangeul 중인)

  1. hanja form? of 중인