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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 中古

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
中古 zhōng gǔ - Sino-Cuban
- China-Cuba
中古 zhōng gǔ - medieval
- Middle Ages
- Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties
- Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English)
- used
- second-hand

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 40,081 35,865 35,317

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
zhōng- (bound form) China; Chinese
- surname Zhong
zhōng- within; among; in
- middle; center
- while (doing sth); during
- (dialect) OK; all right
zhòng- to hit (the mark)
- to be hit by
- to suffer
- to win (a prize, a lottery)
- surname Gu
- ancient
- old
- paleo-

Other Words Containing 中古

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
中古 - - 40,081 35,865 35,317