Chinese Character Wiki
鍾

zhōng

cup

Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 重 represents the sound.

Components
釒 meaning component

釒  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

釒 is a component form of 金.

重 sound component

重  Sound component

zhòng, chóng

  

heavy

Evolution

鍾 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
鍾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鍾 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
鍾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

钟 (鍾) 

zhōng

cup, glass, goblet; surname; handleless cup; goblet; to concentrate; variant of 鐘|钟[zhōng]

钟 (鍾) 

Zhōng

surname Zhong

锺 (鍾) 

zhōng

variant of 鍾|钟[zhōng]

Most common words with 鍾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

分钟

minute

钟

clock

闹钟

alarm clock

钟头

hour

一见钟情

love at first sight (idiom)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*toŋ

tsyowng

zhōng

accumulate; repeat

*toŋ

tsyowng

zhōng

bell; wine vessel; an ancient measure


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 73.7947% of movies

460th most common character in movies

905th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

钟锺

Unicode

U+937E

Shuowen

“鍾，酒器也。从金，重聲。”


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