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中心

Mandarin · pinyin zhōng xīn

center; heart; core

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中: zhōng · central; center, middle; in the midst of; hit (target); attain
心: xīn · heart; mind, intelligence; soul; 5th lunar mansion, determinative star α Scorpii (Antares)

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1–1 · zhong1 xin1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

zung1 sam1

Cantonese word readings for 中心. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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noun

centre (point in the interior of a circle or sphere)
centre (main part of a thing); core
centre (place where some function or activity occurs)

name

(～區) a former name of Siming District (思明區) in Xiamen, Fujian, China, during the late 1940s
(～村) Zhongxin (a village in Wudian, Guangshui, Suizhou, Hubei, China)

adv

(Classical) in the heart; with all one's heart; from the bottom of one's heart

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