Illustration: Inside a neighborhood barbershop, a customer sits under a cutting cape with half their hair neatly trimmed and the other half still shaggy. The barber holds a lifted section between two fingers, scissors poised to continue.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

最さい中ちゅう

saichuu

in the middle of

Also read さなか. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

食事しょくじの最中さいちゅうに呼よび鈴りんが鳴なった。
The doorbell rang during the meal.
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彼女かのじょはきゅうりを切きっている最中さいちゅうだった。
She was right in the middle of cutting cucumbers.
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お話はなしの最中さいちゅうにすみません。
May I interrupt?
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Kanji in 最中

最utmost; mostOnサイ・シュKunもっとも・つま
中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる

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