鍾

Simplified: 钟

On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1.

zhōng ㄓㄨㄥ

    • handleless cup goblet
    • to concentrate (one's affection etc)

      bound form

    • surname Zhong

Other words read zhōng

In the same tone

  • 中 zhōng middle
  • 鐘 zhōng (large) bell
  • 終 zhōng end
  • 忠 zhōng loyal
  • 锺 zhōng nonstandard simplified variant of 钟 zhōng

All 11 words read zhōng

zhong with other tones

  • 種 zhǒng seed
  • 重 zhòng heavy
  • 眾 zhòng crowd
  • 腫 zhǒng swell
  • 塚 zhǒng burial mound

All 23 words read zhong in any tone

How 鍾 is written

    部首 radical
    釒 a form of 金
    笔画 strokes
    17, with 9 after the 部首
    结构 structure
    左右结构
    偏旁 parts
    釒重
    形旁 meaning
    釒
    声旁 sound
    重

    Words with 鍾

    Starting with 鍾

    • 鍾祥市 zhōngxiángshì Zhongxiang, a county-level city in Jingmen City 荆门市 jīngménshì, Hubei
    • 鍾情 zhōngqíng fall in love
    • 鍾愛 zhōngài treasure
    • 鍾馗 zhōngkuí Zhong Kui
    • 鍾繇 zhōngyáo Zhong Yao (151-230), minister of Cao Wei 曹魏 cáowèi and noted calligrapher, said to have developed the regular script 楷书 kǎishū

    All 9 words starting with 鍾

    Ending with 鍾

    Containing 鍾

    • 一見鍾情 yījiànzhōngqíng fall in love at first sight
    • 錢鍾書 qiánzhōngshū Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998), Chinese scholar and writer, author of the 1947 novel Fortress Beseiged 围城 wéichéng

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