钟

鐘traditional

HSK 7–9#1714 by frequencyradical 钅

zhōng["n","nr"]

clock; o'clock; time as measured in hours and minutes; bell; handleless cup; goblet; to concentrate

Zhōng鍾

surname Zhong; handleless cup; goblet; (bound form) to concentrate (one's affection etc); variant of 鐘|钟[zhong1]

Measure words: 架, 座

Examples

钟不走了。

The clock does not run.

钟还没响。

The bell has not rung yet.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.