Chinese symbol for “medium”
中等
zhōng děng
medium
The closest CC-CEDICT match for medium is 中等 (zhōng děng), defined as: medium.
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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
Other Chinese words for “medium”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 介质 (介質) | jiè zhì | medium; media |
| 媒 | méi | medium; intermediary |
| 灵媒 (靈媒) | líng méi | medium (person believed to communicate with spirits) |
| 媒材 | méi cái | medium (art) (Tw) |
| 媒质 (媒質) | méi zhì | medium |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 中等.
| 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 |
| 等等 | děng děng | et cetera; and so on ... |
| 平等 | píng děng | equal; equality |
See also: Japanese symbol for “medium”.
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.