中午
zhōng wǔ
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Noon and the hours around it: midday, lunchtime. 中午十二点 is twelve noon, and 中午见 'see you at lunchtime'. The morning before it is 上午 and the afternoon after it 下午.
Buổi trưa: khoảng giữa ngày, giờ ăn trưa. 中午十二点 là mười hai giờ trưa, 中午见 là “trưa gặp nhé”. Trước buổi trưa là 上午 (buổi sáng), sau là 下午 (buổi chiều).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “中午” mean?
Noon and the hours around it: midday, lunchtime. 中午十二点 is twelve noon, and 中午见 'see you at lunchtime'. The morning before it is 上午 and the afternoon after it 下午. Literally: middle noon
Is “中午” formal or informal?
中午 is generally neutral.