仲 zhòng middle brother
middle brother; surname
How to remember 仲: 亻 person + 中 middle = middle brother. In the family photo every person has a place, and squeezed into the middle as always stands the middle brother.
Component breakdown
仲 = 亻 person + 中 middle
- 亻 person
- 中 middle
In the family photo every person has a place, and squeezed into the middle as always stands the middle brother.
How it is used
- Marks the middle one of three - the middle brother, and the middle month of a season - 仲夏 (zhòngxià) midsummer, 仲裁 (zhòngcái) arbitration (a middle party judging).
- In old brother-ranking 伯仲叔季 = eldest/second/third/youngest, so 不相伯仲 means evenly matched.
- Formal/literary; also a surname.