Chinese symbol for “culmination”
中天
zhōng tiān
(literary) midheaven; highest point in the sky; (astronomy) culmination; transit across the meridian
The closest CC-CEDICT match for culmination is 中天 (zhōng tiān), defined as: (literary) midheaven; highest point in the sky; (astronomy) culmination; transit across the meridian.
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Characters and stroke order
中 zhōng
central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Ch
radical 2 ⼁ · 4 strokes
Related words
Other words that share a character with 中天.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 其中 | qí zhōng | among; in |
| 中心 | zhōng xīn | center; heart; core |
| 中央 | zhōng yāng | central; middle |
| 中学 (中學) | zhōng xué | middle school |
| 之中 | zhī zhōng | inside; among |
| 集中 | jí zhōng | to concentrate; to centralize |
| 今天 | jīn tiān | today; the present time; now |
| 每天 | měi tiān | every day |
See also: Japanese symbol for “culmination”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.