中 zhōng
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 丨 — vertical stroke
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
中部
zhōngbù
central part
Characters in this word
部 bù
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 阝 — place, town, city
- Made of
- 咅 to spit out 阝 place, town, city
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我住在中部。 Wǒ zhù zài zhōngbù. I live in the central part.
- 中部天气很好。 Zhōngbù tiānqì hěn hǎo. The weather is good in the center.
- 这里是中部。 Zhèlǐ shì zhōngbù. This is the central part.
Related words
- 中 zhōng middle, center; in, during
- 中国 Zhōngguó China
- 中间 zhōngjiān middle; between, among
- 中文 Zhōngwén Chinese (language)
- 中午 zhōngwǔ noon, midday
- 中学 zhōngxué middle school
- 中学生 zhōngxuéshēng middle school student
- 高中 gāozhōng senior high school
- 其中 qízhōng among them
- 心中 xīnzhōng in one's heart
- 中餐 zhōngcān Chinese food
- 中级 zhōngjí intermediate level