仲

仲	U+4EF2, 仲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EF2

← 仱
[U+4EF1]

CJK Unified Ideographs

仳 →
[U+4EF3]

Translingual

Han character

仲 (radical 9, 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人中 (OL) or X人中 (XOL), four-corner 2520₆, composition ⿰亻中)

References

KangXi: page 94, character 11

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 403

Dae Jaweon: page 200, character 3

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 121, character 7

Unihan data for U+4EF2

Chinese

simp. and trad.		仲

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 仲

Shang

Western Zhou

Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)

Liushutong (compiled in Ming)

Oracle bone script

Bronze inscriptions

Small seal script

Transcribed ancient scripts

**Oracle bone script**
j18803	j18804	j18805	j18806	j18807	j18808	j18809	j18810
j18811	j18812	j18813	j18814	j18815	j18816	j18817	j18818
j18819	j18820	j18821	j18822	j18823	j18824	j18825	j18826
j18827	j18828	j18829	j18830	j18831	j18832	j18833	j18834
j18835	j18836	j18837	j18838	j18839	j18840	j18841	j18842
j18843

**Bronze inscriptions**
b12253

**Small seal script**
s05674

**Transcribed ancient scripts**
L35564	L35565	L35566	L35567	L35568	L35569	L18953	L18954
L18955	L18956	L18957	L18952

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (中) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
中	tuŋ, tuŋs
忠	*tuŋ
衷	tuŋ, tuŋs
忡	*tʰuŋ
浺	*tʰuŋ
盅	tʰuŋ, duŋ, *tjoŋ
种	*duŋ
沖	*duŋ
翀	*duŋ
仲	*duŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *duŋs) : semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 中 (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs, “middle”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhòng (zhong⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zung⁶
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): tiōng
(Teochew, Peng'im): dong⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: zhòng
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥˋ
  - Wade–Giles: chung⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jonq
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhòng
  - IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zung⁶
  - Yale: juhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzung⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: zung⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ²²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiōng
  - Tâi-lô: tiōng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: diong
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɔŋ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiɔŋ²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: dong⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tŏng
  - IPA ^(key): /toŋ³⁵/

Middle Chinese: /ɖɨuŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	仲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	東 (2)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直衆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖɨuŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖiuŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiuŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖuwŋ^H/
Li Rong	/ȡiuŋ^H/
Wang Li	/ȡĭuŋ^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯uŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhòng

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*N-truŋ-s/
(Zhengzhang): /*duŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	仲
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhòng
Middle Chinese	‹ drjuwng^H ›
Old Chinese	/*N-truŋ-s/
English	middle (of brothers)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	仲
Reading #	1/1
No.	17419
Phonetic component	中
Rime group	終
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	仲
Old Chinese	/*duŋs/

Etymology 1

Derived from 中 (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs, “middle”).

Definitions

仲

^† second, especially when referring to seniority of siblings. See usage notes of 伯.
伯仲 ― bózhòng ― superior and inferior, competition, comparison
^† middle
仲夏 ― zhòngxià ― midsummer
仲裁 ― zhòngcái ― arbitration
A surname.

Compounds

二仲
仲介 (zhòngjiè)
仲介公司
仲冬
仲夏 (zhòngxià)
仲子
仲家
仲尼
仲弓

仲春
仲父
仲秋
仲裁 (zhòngcái)
伯仲 (bózhòng)
伯仲之間／伯仲之间
伯仲叔季 (bózhòngshūjì)
伯壎仲篪

商務仲裁／商务仲裁
國際仲裁／国际仲裁
將仲子／将仲子
昆仲 (kūnzhòng)
焦仲卿妻
管仲隨馬／管仲随马
翁仲
賢昆仲／贤昆仲

Etymology 2

From 重. Some suggest it is of Tai-Kadai origin.

Definitions

仲

(Cantonese) still (referring to time)
佢而家都仲食緊飯。 [Cantonese, trad.]
佢而家都仲食紧饭。 [Cantonese, simp.]
Keoi⁵ ji⁴ gaa¹ dou¹ zung⁶ sik⁶ gan² faan⁶. [Jyutping]
He is still eating, even now.

Compounds

仲要

Japanese

Kanji

仲

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Go-on: じゅう (jū)
Kan-on: ちゅう (chū, Jōyō)
Kun: なか (naka, 仲, Jōyō)

Compounds

仲人
仲介
仲仕
仲保
仲値
仲兄
仲冬
仲夏
仲居
仲断
仲春
仲核
仲秋
仲立人
仲継
仲裁
仲見世, 仲店
仲買
仲間

Etymology

Kanji in this term
仲
なか Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Noun

仲 (hiragana なか, rōmaji naka)

relationship, terms

Derived terms

仲 (なか)がいい (naka ga ii), 仲 (なか)が良 (よ)い (naka ga yoi)
仲 (なか)に入 (はい)る (naka ni hairu)
仲働 (なかばたら)き (nakabataraki)
仲直 (なかなお)り (nakanaori)
仲睦 (なかむつ)まじい (nakamutsumajii)

仲立 (なかだ)ち (nakadachi)
仲良 (なかよ)く (nakayoku)
仲良 (なかよ)し (nakayoshi)
仲違 (なかたが)い (nakatagai)

Korean

Hanja

仲 • (jung) (hangeul 중, revised jung, McCune–Reischauer chung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

仲 (trọng)

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References

Nom Foundation