Example sentences
zhōng中wǔ午chī吃shén什me么？
What's for lunch?
zhōng中wǔ午jiàn见。
See you at noon.
The story behind the character
中
中 is actually a flag. The vertical stroke is the pole, and the box is the banner. Armies planted a flag in the center of camp, and that center became 中. You think of it as "middle," but it's a flag standing in the middle.