HSK 6 · Places

中央 zhōngyāng “centre” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 中央 means

  1. centre
  2. central
  3. central government
  4. middle
  5. central authorities (of a state)

How to say 中央

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale中zhōng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale央yāng1st tone, high and level

中央 in a sentence

  1. 城市中央有一座公园。

    Chéngshì zhōngyāng yǒu yí zuò gōngyuán.

    There is a park in the middle of the city.

    Sentence #559030 from Tatoeba

  2. 园丁在花园的中央种了一棵玫瑰树。

    Yuándīng zài huāyuán de zhōngyāng zhòng le yì kē méiguī shù.

    The gardener planted a rose bush in the middle of the garden.

    Sentence #2000088 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这栋楼里面有中央暖气系统吗？

    Zhè dòng lóu lǐmiàn yǒu zhōngyāng nuǎnqì xìtǒng ma?

    Does this building have central heating?

    Sentence #4764531 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 中央 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 中 (zhōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
中zhōngwithin; among; in
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 丨line · gǔn

Memory aidA line 丨 through the centre of a box 口: the middle.

The character 央 (yāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
央yāngcentre
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 大big · dà

How to write 中央

中 4 strokes · 央 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

中央 (zhōngyāng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 中央 (zhōngyāng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 中央

Words with 中

中午zhōngwǔ · noon中国Zhōngguó · China中学zhōngxué · middle school中学生zhōngxuéshēng · middle-school student高中gāozhōng · senior high school中zhōng · middle中间zhōngjiān · middle中文Zhōngwén · Chinese language初中chūzhōng · junior high school其中qízhōng · among

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FAQs

中央 (zhōngyāng) means “centre” or “central”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhōngyāng: zhōng with a 1st tone, then yāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 中央 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhongyang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 中央 from the suggestions. Typing zhongyang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
中央 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.