HSK 6 Pronouns & determiners
其中
Among them / of which (其中)
Structure Mentioned set,其中 + part = "of which / among them, …"
其中 (qízhōng) means "among them / of which / within that set". It is a partitive anaphor: it presupposes an already-named group and points to a part of it. 他买了三本书,其中一本是中文的 = "he bought three books, one of which is in Chinese". It is extremely common in expository and journalistic prose for breaking out a portion of a whole. It joins 其 ("that, of them") with 中 ("within"); it cannot stand without a previously mentioned set.
Examples
- 他买了三本书,其中一本是中文的。
He bought three books, one of which is in Chinese.
- 会上提出了多项建议,其中不乏可行之策。
Several proposals were raised at the meeting, among them no shortage of workable measures.
- 公司裁员两百人,其中多数是临时工。
The company laid off two hundred people, most of them temporary workers.
Levels are indicative: they follow the standard Chinese Grammar Wiki (AllSet Learning) progression, not an official HSK 3.0 mapping. We never assign levels by eye.