Word information
Simplified中庸
Traditional中庸
Pinyinzhōngyōng
Part of speech名、形
HSK 3.07-9
HSK 2.0Not listed
Chinese word dictionary
中庸
zhōngyōng · golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary; the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1]
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