Core in Chinese
core · HSK 5
中心
- 中 middle
- 心 heart
Counted with 个: 一个中心
我家就在城市的中心。 My home is right in the center of the city.
Other ways to say core
More words with 中 or 心
How do you say core in Chinese?
Core in Chinese is 中心 (zhōng xīn). You can also say 核心 (hé xīn), 重心 (zhòng xīn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from our own dictionary. Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.