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Mythic Mandarin

钟头 (zhōng tóu): meaning and stroke order

钟头 (zhōng tóu) means (coll.) hour.

钟头

Simplified
钟头
Traditional
鐘頭
Pinyin
zhōng tóu

Stroke order of 钟头

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

头

  • tóu head; hair style
  • tou suffix for nouns
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 頭

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 钟头

  1. zhōng tóu Traditional 鐘頭
    • (coll.) hour

Radicals of the characters

钟
Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 9 strokes · 钅 on the left, 中 on the right
头
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 5 strokes

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.

钟头 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 老杜笑了，说他一点儿也不失落：生意是少了，可是来的人都是老朋友，修一双鞋，能聊半个钟头。

    lǎo Dù xiào le shuō tā yìdiǎnr yě bù shīluò shēngyi shì shǎo le kěshì lái de rén dōu shì lǎo péngyou xiū yì shuāng xié néng liáo bàn gè zhōngtóu

    Old Du laughed and said he didn't feel down at all: business was slower, but everyone who came was an old friend, and mending one pair of shoes meant half an hour's chat.

    From the story Old Du on the corner HSK 6

Stories using 钟头

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).