middle; inside

Builds 118 distinct compound words — ranked #18 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: チュウ
訓 kun: なか

Inside or midway. As a suffix it means 'in the middle of doing' — 勉強中 studying. Also 中止 a halt, and China: 中国.

The ten most common compounds built on 中. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

118compounds built

3,705times those words occur

#17by productivity alone

#31by how often it turns up

Where 中 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 中. Each one opens its own map.

一one一日中、一晩中#2 日sun; day一日中#5 国country中国#27 前before; front午前中#40

Words built on 中

中なか1,680 uses

途中とちゅう203 uses

一日中いちにちじゅう174 uses

中々110 uses

夢中むちゅう104 uses

中国ちゅうごく99 uses

中止ちゅうし96 uses

世界中せかいじゅう83 uses

一晩中48 uses

午前中47 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.