(zhōng) - bell, clock; o-clock in Mandarin
zhōngTraditional: 鍾
Translation
bell, clock; o-clock
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the metal radical 钅marks it as a bell or metal object and 中 (zhōng) gives the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 钅 (metal radical) + 中 (zhōng, phonetic)
Stroke order
钟
Examples
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Please wait five minutes.
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The meeting starts in ten minutes.
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I get up with an alarm clock every day.
墙。
The clock on the wall is broken.
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This clock is very accurate.
钟 (zhōng) means bell or clock; with 分 it forms 分钟 (fēnzhōng), minute.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 钟.
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