what does this mean?

[dalaowai]

I came across 人中之 in an article. I understand the people middle branch thing, however as three characters placed together I have no idea.

Dictionnaries haven't been helpful. Does anybody know what this means?

Thanks!

[中文的力量]

Could you be more explicit please ? What your article is about ? Economic ? politic ? medecin ?

[semantic nuance]

I believe that there must be a noun after 之, such as 人中之龍, 人中之鳳, meaing 'one of a kind ', 'extraordinary' etc. 之 is as 的 in this case.

In anatomy, 人中 is philtrum. But I doubt that this is what you need.

Hope it helps!

[中文的力量]

Hehe that's the reason why i asked this question

[self-taught-mba]

In anatomy, 人中 is philtrum

which i had to look up:mrgreen: philtrum apparently is part of the lip

but...

in Chinese medicine ren2 zhong1 also means the middle part of man

also something to do with astrology/ horoscopes I believe

[dalaowai]

Thanks for the replies! My philtrum is acting up right now! Wow, it's hard to use philtrum in a sentence. Let me try again, Does my philtrum look normal to you?

yes, I got philtrum from baidu, then I had to turn around and check my english dictionary to find out what a philtrum was. haha

This is exactly how it was written 人中之... I recall there being three dots after it. I will have to check it again and I will write more about it later.

Now to sleep i go...I will check the article again and post more later.

[Quest]

I'd suggest quoting the whole sentence next time if you are not 100% sure where the word boundaries are.