中葉 (zhōngyè) — the middle period (of a century, a dynasty, an era)

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TSUMUGU · TOCFL C1 (est.) · 詞

中葉 word · TOCFL C1 (est.)

中葉＝中＋葉

ㄓㄨㄥㄧㄝˋ · zhōngyè

noun — the middle period (of a century, a dynasty, an era)

字源 FORM — what the parts do

中middle (中間)zhōng

葉a period, a stretch of an age (時期)yè葉 here is not "leaf" but its borrowed sense — a slice of time, the early / middle / late of an age

中葉，中間的中，樹葉的葉。

關 · Related

末葉mòyèthe late period — the closing slice of the same 葉世紀shìjìthe century whose 中葉 this names