仲
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second month of a season; middle; intermediate; second amongst brothers
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 人 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 仲
- Common rank
- #2,270
- Unicode
- U+4EF2
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Formation & memory
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How 仲 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
The middle 中 person 亻; 中 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
mid- · Heisig RSH #2058
人 person + 中 middle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 仲
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不分伯仲 | lit. unable to distinguish eldest brother from second brother (idiom); they are all equall… | |
| 伯仲之间 | almost on a par | |
| 大仲马 | Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870), French writer | |
| 仲巴县 | Zhongba, a county in Shigatse City 日喀則市|日喀则市[Ri4 ka1 ze2 Shi4], Tibet | |
| 仲夏夜之梦 | Midsummer night's dream, comedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚[Sha1 shi4 bi3 ya4] | |
| 仲巴 | see 仲巴縣|仲巴县[Zhong4 ba1 Xian4] | |
| 管仲 | Guan Zhong (-645 BC), famous politician of Qi 齊國|齐国 of Spring and Autumn period; known as … | |
| 仲尼 | courtesy name for Confucius 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3] | |
| 房仲 | real estate agent (Tw) | |
| 伯仲叔季 | (idiom) eldest, second, third and youngest of brothers; order of seniority among brothers | |
| 仲秋 | second month of autumn; 8th month of the lunar calendar | |
| 仲夏 | midsummer; second month of summer | |
| 仲父 | father's younger brother; (sometimes used to refer to Confucius) | |
| 杜仲 | eucommia (a kind of rubber tree) | |
| 仲介 | (Tw) middleman; agent; broker | |
| 晏平仲 | another name for Yan Ying 晏嬰|晏婴[Yan4 Ying1] or Yanzi 晏子[Yan4 zi3] (-500 BC), famous states… | |
| 仲裁 | arbitration | |
| 陈仲琳 | Chen Zhonglin, aka Xu Zhonglin 許仲琳|许仲琳[Xu3 Zhong4 lin2] (c. 1567–c. 1620), Ming novelist, … | |
| 许仲琳 | Xu Zhonglin or Chen Zhonglin 陳仲琳|陈仲琳[Chen2 Zhong4 lin2] (c. 1567-c. 1620), Ming novelist, … | |
| 昆仲 | (literary) brothers; elder and younger brother |