Middle

N5 · 4 stroke · 18 kanji

A vertical stroke piercing perfectly through the center of a box — dead center, balanced, inside.

Imagine an archer releasing an arrow straight and true. It flies across the room and strikes the exact center of the target — not left, not right, but perfectly through the middle. That is 中. Center. Inside. Middle. The stroke that pins everything in place.

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Kanji using this radical
2 kanji
Relationship / Fellowship
なか · ちゅう
Insect / Bug
むし · ちゅう

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