Chinese symbol for “median”

中位数

zhōng wèi shù

Traditional: 中位數

(statistics) median

The closest CC-CEDICT match for median is 中位数 (zhōng wèi shù), defined as: (statistics) median.

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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

位 wèi

seat, throne; rank, status; position, location

radical 9 ⼈ · 7 strokes

数 shù

count, number, several

radical 66 ⽁ · 13 strokes

Traditional forms

數 shù

Related words

Other words that share a character with 中位数.

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
单位 (單位)	dān wèi	unit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole)
位于 (位於)	wèi yú	to be located at; to be situated at
数据 (數據)	shù jù	data

See also: Japanese symbol for “median”.

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.