HSK 3.0 Level 3 · School

初中 chūzhōng “junior high school” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 初中 means

  1. junior high school
  2. lower secondary school
  3. junior high school (abbr. for 初级中学)

How to say 初中

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale初chū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale中zhōng1st tone, high and level

初中 in a sentence

  1. 我不是个初中生。

    Wǒ bú shì ge chūzhōngshēng.

    I’m not a junior high school student.

    Sentence #891746 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 初中 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 初 (chū) with each of its parts in a different colour
初chūat first; initially
  • 衤clothes form of 衣 · yī
  • 刀knife · dāo
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.

How to write 初中

初 7 strokes · 中 4 strokes

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

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

Words related to 初中

Words with 初

最初zuìchū · at first初级chūjí · elementary当初dāngchū · originally起初qǐchū · at first初步chūbù · initial

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其中qízhōng · among中旬zhōngxún · middle third of a month

More words: School & Work

校园xiàoyuán · campus开会kāihuì · to have a meeting难题nántí · difficult problem放假fàngjià · to have a holiday放学fàngxué · to finish school (for the day)画家huàjiā · painter笔记bǐjì · notes休假xiūjià · to take leave

FAQs

初中 (chūzhōng) means “junior high school” or “lower secondary school”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it chūzhōng: chū with a 1st tone, then zhōng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 初中 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chuzhong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 初中 from the suggestions. Typing chuzhong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
初中 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older 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.