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鐘
简 钟 · 繁 鐘Mandarin · pinyin zhōng
Meanings
- a (large) bell (Classifier: 架 jià)
- clock (Classifier: 座 zuò)
- amount of time; o'clock (Classifier: 點 diǎn, 分 fēn, 秒 miǎo) (as in 三點鐘 sān diǎn zhōng "three o'clock" or "three hours" or 五分鐘 wǔ fēn zhōng "five minutes" etc)
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1 · zhong1
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Cantonese word readings for 鐘. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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- bell (Classifier: 架; 座)
- clock (Classifier: 架; 座)
- time measured in hours and minutes
- (Cantonese) hour (Classifier: 個／个; 粒; 句)
- (Cantonese, in general) time
- (Cantonese, colloquial) (the length or time period of) sexual services, such as that of prostitutes
- (historical) metal ceremonial percussion instrument hung from a rack and struck with a mallet
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 鍾 /钟 (zhōng, “unit of capacity”)
- a surname
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