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Mythic Mandarin

心中 (xīn zhōng): meaning and stroke order

心中 (xīn zhōng) means central point, in one's thoughts, in one's heart.

心中

Simplified
心中
Traditional
心中 (same form)
Pinyin
xīn zhōng

Stroke order of 心中

心

  • xīn heart; mind
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

中

  • Zhōng (bound form) China; Chinese; surname Zhong
  • zhōng within; among; in; middle; center
  • zhòng to hit (a target); to be struck by (a bullet, illness etc)
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 心中

  1. xīn zhōng
    • central point
    • in one's thoughts
    • in one's heart

Radicals of the characters

心
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 4 strokes
中
Radical 丨 (Kangxi radical 2) · 4 strokes · built from 口 and 丨

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

心中 in our stories

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  • 后来，他踩着风火轮，拿着火尖枪，帮助周武王打败了商朝，成了人们心中勇敢的少年英雄。

    hòulái tā cǎi zhe fēnghuǒlún ná zhe huǒjiānqiāng bāngzhù Zhōu Wǔwáng dǎbài le Shāngcháo chéng le rénmen xīnzhōng yǒnggǎn de shàonián yīngxióng

    Later, riding his wind-and-fire wheels and wielding his fire-tipped spear, he helped King Wu of Zhou defeat the Shang and became a brave young hero in people's hearts.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 夸父看着族人一个个倒下，心中悲愤交加。他想：太阳每天从东方升起，在西方落下，如果能追上它，让它听人的话，该有多好！

    Kuāfù kànzhe zúrén yígègè dǎo xià xīnzhōng bēifènjiāojiā tā xiǎng tàiyáng měitiān cóng dōngfāng shēngqǐ zài xīfāng luò xià rúguǒ néng zhuī shàng tā ràng tā tīng rén de huà gāi yǒu duō hǎo

    Watching his people collapse one after another, Kuafu was filled with grief and anger. He thought: the sun rises in the east every day and sets in the west; if he could catch it and make it obey people, how wonderful that would be!

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 心中

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).