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Mythic Mandarin

闹钟 (nào zhōng): meaning and stroke order

闹钟 (nào zhōng) means alarm clock.

闹钟

Simplified
闹钟
Traditional
鬧鐘
Pinyin
nào zhōng

Stroke order of 闹钟

闹

  • nào variant of 鬧|闹[nao4]
  • nào noisy; cacophonous
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 閙

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 闹钟

  1. nào zhōng Traditional 鬧鐘
    • alarm clock

Radicals of the characters

闹
Radical 门 (Kangxi radical 169) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · built from 门 and 市
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.

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).