钟
Meaning
- a (large) bell
- clock
- amount of time; o'clock (as in 三点钟 "three o'clock" or "three hours" or 五分钟 "five minutes" etc)
Example sentence
钟不走了。
The clock does not run.
The character 钟
钟 is 钅, metal, beside 中: a bell, and then the clock that struck the hours. 分钟 a minute, 五点钟 five o'clock, 闹钟 the alarm — and in speech an hour is 一个钟头.