钟 鐘
钟鐘 in English
- a (large) bell (CL:架[jia4]) / clock (CL:座[zuo4]) / amount of time / o'clock (CL:點|点[dian3],分[fen1],秒[miao3]) (as in 三點鐘|三点钟[san1dian3zhong1] "three o'clock" or "three hours" or 五分鐘|五分钟[wu3fen1zhong1] "five minutes" etc)
Measure word
- 点 diǎn point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot; to check on a list; to choose; to order... attested
- 分 fēn to divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad); (bound form) branch of (an... attested
- 座 zuò seat; base; stand; (bound form) constellation; (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g... attested
- 架 jià to support; frame; rack; framework; classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc attested
- 秒 miǎo second (unit of time); arc second (angular measurement unit); (coll.) instantly attested
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 鐘, the traditional character: 钟 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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10分钟后，他们换了个新话题。
After ten minutes, they passed on to a new topic.
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一分钟有六十秒。
A minute has sixty seconds.
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七点钟我打电话给你.
I'll call you at seven.
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他五点钟回来的。
He came back at five o'clock.
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他在指定时间的五分钟后到了。
He came five minutes behind the appointed time.
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他完成工作几分钟后，就去睡觉了。
A few minutes after he finished his work, he went to bed.
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他的手表慢了十分钟。
His watch is ten minutes slow.
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你有几分钟时间吗？我想跟你聊一下。
Can you spare me a few minutes? I'd like to have a word with you.