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Mythic Mandarin

中午 (zhōng wǔ): meaning and stroke order

中午 (zhōng wǔ) means noon, midday, 个.

中午

Simplified
中午
Traditional
中午 (same form)
Pinyin
zhōng wǔ

Stroke order of 中午

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

午

  • wǔ 7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse; ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south)
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 中午

  1. zhōng wǔ
    • noon
    • midday
    • CL:個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

中
Radical 丨 (Kangxi radical 2) · 4 strokes · built from 口 and 丨
午
Radical 十 (Kangxi radical 24) · 4 strokes · 𠂉 on top, 十 below

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.

中午 in our stories

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  • 中午，大卫去饭店。

    zhōngwǔ Dàwèi qù fàndiàn

    At noon David goes to a restaurant.

    From the story At the restaurant HSK 1

  • 刘阳想了一下，说：“中午吃了两碗面条，晚上吃了很多冰西瓜。”

    Liú Yáng xiǎng le yíxià shuō zhōngwǔ chī le liǎng wǎn miàntiáo wǎnshang chī le hěn duō bīng xīguā

    Liu Yang thinks for a moment and says, "Two bowls of noodles at lunch, and a lot of ice-cold watermelon in the evening."

    From the story Ice-cold watermelon HSK 2

  • 中午，一个美丽的姑娘从水缸里走了出来，开始做饭。

    zhōngwǔ yí gè měilì de gūniang cóng shuǐgāng lǐ zǒu le chūlai kāishǐ zuò fàn

    At noon a beautiful girl stepped out of the water jar and began to cook.

    From the story The river-snail girl HSK 4

Where you learn it

中午 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

Stories using 中午

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).