CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

人中

rénzhōng

philtrum

IN A VIDEO人中

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

philtrum

infranasal depression

the "human center" acupuncture point

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 人中 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 人中 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

汤姆是我们三个人中跑得最快的。tāng mǔ shì wǒ men sān gè rén zhōng pǎo dé zuì kuài de。

Tom is the fastest runner out of the three of us.

这城市每三个人中有一个拥有自己的车。zhè chéng shì měi sān gè rén zhōng yǒu yí gè yōng yǒu zì jǐ de chē。

One out of three persons in this city has his own car.

毫无疑问，世上存在这样的情况：无论哪个男人，都有一个完全合适的女人与他结婚，反之亦然。然而，试想人一生中只有机会认识几百个人，而在这几百人中只能真正了解不到十几个人，再从这十几个人中只能和一两个人成为朋友，而且如果我们所记得的也只是这世上的几百万人——那麽你很容易就能察觉到：自地球诞生以来，那个完全合适的男人，也许从未遇见过那个完全合适的女人。háo wú yí wèn， shì shàng cún zài zhè yàng de qíng kuàng： wú lùn nǎ ge nán rén， dōu yǒu yí gè wán quán hé shì de nǚ rén yǔ tā jié hūn， fǎn zhī yì rán。 rán ér， shì xiǎng rén yī shēng zhōng zhǐ yǒu jī huì rèn shí jǐ bǎi gè rén， ér zài zhè jǐ bǎi rén zhōng zhǐ néng zhēn zhèng liǎo jiě bú dào shí jǐ gè rén， zài cóng zhè shí jǐ gè rén zhōng zhǐ néng hé yī liǎng gè rén chéng wéi péng yǒu， ér qiě rú guǒ wǒ men suǒ jì de de yě zhǐ shì zhè shì shàng de jǐ bǎi wàn rén —— nà mó nǐ hěn róng yì jiù néng chá jué dào： zì dì qiú dàn shēng yǐ lái， nà ge wán quán hé shì de nán rén， yě xǔ cóng wèi yù jiàn guò nà ge wán quán hé shì de nǚ rén。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 人中.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 人中.

Directly before

三个人中2
十几个人中1

Directly after

人中有1
人中跑1
人中只能1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 人中

What does 人中 mean in Chinese?

人中 (rénzhōng) means philtrum.

How do you pronounce 人中?

人中 is pronounced rénzhōng.

Is 人中 an HSK word?

人中 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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