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Mythic Mandarin

挂钟 (guà zhōng): meaning and stroke order

挂钟 (guà zhōng) means wall clock.

挂钟

Simplified
挂钟
Traditional
掛鐘
Pinyin
guà zhōng

Stroke order of 挂钟

挂

  • guà to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone)
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 掛

Stroke by stroke

钟

  • Zhōng surname Zhong
  • zhōng handleless cup; goblet; (bound form) to concentrate (one's affection etc)
  • zhōng a (large) bell (CL:架[jia4]); clock (CL:座[zuo4])
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 鍾

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 挂钟

  1. guà zhōng Traditional 掛鐘
    • wall clock

Radicals of the characters

挂
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 9 strokes · 扌 on the left, 圭 on the right
钟
Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 9 strokes · 钅 on the left, 中 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

挂钟 in our stories

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  • 天快黑的时候，他抬头看见墙上那只早就不走了的老挂钟：舅公每天都要看它好几次，可它的时间从来不对。

    tiān kuài hēi de shíhou tā tái tóu kànjiàn qiáng shàng nà zhī zǎo jiù bù zǒu le de lǎo guàzhōng jiùgōng měitiān dōu yào kàn tā hǎo jǐ cì kě tā de shíjiān cónglái bú duì

    As it was getting dark he looked up at the old wall clock that had stopped long ago: his great-uncle looked at it several times a day, yet it never showed the right time.

    From the story Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6

Stories using 挂钟

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).