Illustration: Inside a neighborhood Japanese barbershop, a barber is actively cutting a customer's hair, holding a lifted section between their fingers with the scissors midway through a snip. One side is neatly shortened while the other still hangs long.

JLPT N4suffixLevel estimated by Bebop

中ちゅう

chuu

currently doing, in progress

Attach it to an activity noun, as in 会議中. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 隣となりの部屋へやでは会議かいぎ中ちゅうです。

    There is a conference going on in the next room.

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  2. 彼かれは食事しょくじ中ちゅうだ。

    He is eating.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 私わたしは失業しつぎょう中ちゅうだ。

    I am out of work.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 中

  • 中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる

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