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Chinese symbol for “midwest”

中西部
zhōng xī bù
midwest

The closest CC-CEDICT match for midwest is 中西部 (zhōng xī bù), defined as: midwest.

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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
西 xī
west, western, westward
radical 146 ⾑ · 6 strokes
部 bù
department, ministry; division, unit; part, section
radical 163 ⾢ · 10 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 中西部.

WordPinyinMeaning
其中qí zhōngamong; in
中心zhōng xīncenter; heart; core
中央zhōng yāngcentral; middle
中学 (中學)zhōng xuémiddle school
之中zhī zhōnginside; among
集中jí zhōngto concentrate; to centralize
东西 (東西)dōng xīeast and west
西部xī bùwestern part
部分bù fenpart; portion; piece; Taiwan pr. [bu4fen4]

See also: Japanese symbol for “midwest”.

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.