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Kotomora

仲

go-between, relationship

JLPTN2StatusJōyō · grade 4FrequencyTop 1,000Strokes6

Readings

On'yomi

  • チュウ

Kun'yomi

  • なか

Nanori

  • ちゅん
  • つづき
  • なかつ

Meaning

仲 centers on the space or connection between people: a go-between who mediates, or the relationship itself that links individuals.

Most common words using 仲

20 of 103
  • 仲間なかま
    N3

    companion; fellow; friend; mate; comrade; partner; colleague; coworker; associate

  • 仲なか
    N3

    relation; relationship

  • 仲良くなかよく
    N1

    on good terms (with); on friendly terms (with); (getting along) well; in harmony; happily; peacefully

  • 仲介ちゅうかい
    N1

    agency; intermediation

  • 仲良しなかよし
    N3

    close friendship; close friend; good friend; bosom buddy; chum; pal

  • 仲居なかい

    waitress (in a ryokan or traditional restaurant); hostess

  • 仲直りなかなおり
    N3

    reconciliation; making up (with); making peace (with); being friends again; patching up a quarrel

  • 仲間入りなかまいり

    joining (a group); becoming a member (of); joining the ranks (of)

  • 仲裁ちゅうさい
    N1

    arbitration; intercession; mediation

  • 不仲ふなか

    discord; (on) bad terms (with)

  • 仲人なこうど
    N1

    matchmaker

  • 仲いいなかいい

    close; intimate; on good terms

  • 恋仲こいなか

    being in love with each other

  • 仲間はずれなかまはずれ
    N2

    being left out; being ostracized

  • 仲違いなかたがい

    falling out (with); quarrel; discord; estrangement; being on bad terms

  • 仲間割れなかまわれ

    split among friends; falling out; internal discord

  • 仲買人なかがいにん

    broker; jobber

  • 仲立ちなかだち

    mediation; agency; agent; mediator; middleman; go-between

  • 仲見世なかみせ

    nakamise; shops lining a passageway in the precincts of a Shinto shrine

  • 伯仲はくちゅう

    being evenly matched; being equal with; being on a par with; being well contested

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Etymology

仲 combines 亻 (person) with 中 (middle), suggesting a person who stands in the middle or mediates between others.

Meaning mnemonic

A person 亻 standing in the middle 中 acts as a go-between, forming the relationship between two sides.

Reading mnemonic

For チュウ, picture a mediator choosing (チュウ sounds like 'choose') the best path between two people: choose -> チュウ, and the person in the middle makes the choice.