ABSTRACTThis paper tackles the problem of stabilization of a class of non‐minimum phase nonlinear systems which have zero dynamics with an eigenvalue zero of multiplicity 2. By adding some new terms, called cross terms, we are able to generalize the concept of the Lyapunov function with a homogeneous derivative along the trajectory, which was introduced in [4], to produce a suitable Lyapunov function. The Lyapunov function assures that the stability of an approximate system, which consists of some lower order terms of a nonlinear system with an eigenvalue zero of multiplicity 2, implies the stability of the whole system. Applying these to non‐minimum phase zero dynamics of nonlinear systems with such a center, a sufficient condition and a design method of state feedback control are obtained for stabilizing the systems.