Kana: なか

inside; in

Example sentence

箱の中に本があります。

はこのなかにほんがあります。

There is a book inside the box.

What 中 means

(なか) is an Japanese word meaning “inside; in”. It belongs to the Places & Travel topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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