仲

Stroke order

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

• 㑖, 㣡, 㳞, 㴢, 𠉿, 茽, 筗, 𭼌

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 94, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 403
• Dae Jaweon: page 200, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 121, character 7
• Unihan data for U+4EF2

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).

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

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

仲

1. ^† second, especially when referring to seniority of siblings. See usage notes of 伯.

   伯仲  ―  bózhòng  ―  superior and inferior, competition, comparison

2. ^† middle

   仲夏  ―  zhòngxià  ―  midsummer

   仲裁  ―  zhòngcái  ―  arbitration

3. a surname

Probably from 重.

仲 (Cantonese)

1. still (referring to time)

   仲未得住。 [Cantonese]  ―  zung⁶ mei⁶ dak¹ zyu⁶. [Jyutping]  ―  It's still not OK.

   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.

2. even more

   我哋間屋仲大。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   我哋间屋仲大。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ dei⁶ gaan¹ uk¹ zung⁶ daai⁶. [Jyutping]

   Our house is even bigger.

   依條褲仲貴。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   依条裤仲贵。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ji¹ tiu⁴ fu³ zung⁶ gwai³. [Jyutping]

   This pair of pants is even more expensive.

3. also; as well

   我哋尋日夜晚黑仲去埋維多利亞港添！ [Cantonese, trad.]
   我哋寻日夜晚黑仲去埋维多利亚港添！ [Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ dei⁶ cam⁴ jat⁶ je⁶ maan⁵ haak¹ zung⁶ heoi³ maai⁴ wai⁴ do¹ lei⁶ aa³ gong² tim¹! [Jyutping]

   We went to Victoria Harbor last night as well!

• 饒秉才, 歐陽覺亞, 周無忌 (2010) 廣州話方言詞典（修訂版） (in Chinese), 香港: 商務印書館, →ISBN
• “仲”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “仲”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 311.

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: じゅう (jū)^{←ぢゆう (dyuu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちゅう (chū, Jōyō)^{←ちゆう (tyuu, historical)}
• Kun: なか (naka, 仲, Jōyō)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕuŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [중]

 

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仲

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仲 (eum 중 (jung))

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