之中 (zhī zhōng) means “inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during”. It is an HSK 5 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
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他在同学之中最受欢迎。
Tā zài tóngxué zhī zhōng zuì shòu huānyíng.
He is the most popular among his classmates.
Updated: 2026-07-18