Chinese symbol for “medieval”

中世纪

zhōng shì jì

Traditional: 中世紀

medieval; Middle Ages

The closest CC-CEDICT match for medieval is 中世纪 (zhōng shì jì), defined as: medieval; Middle Ages.

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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

世 shì

generation, era, age; world

radical 1 ⼀ · 5 strokes

纪 jì

discipline, age; period, era; record, annal

radical 120 ⽷ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

紀 jì

Other Chinese words for “medieval”

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
中古	zhōng gǔ	medieval; Middle Ages

Related words

Other words that share a character with 中世纪.

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
世界	shì jiè	world
世纪 (世紀)	shì jì	century
纪念 (紀念)	jì niàn	to commemorate; to honor the memory of; memento; keepsake; souvenir

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.