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Millie Tiwatmuncharoen
Millie Tiwatmuncharoen
4 years ago

The radical looks like “Z” with a hat on. The right side is 中 and it looks like the clock hand is hanging down.

Isa Cuellar
Isa Cuellar
4 years ago

The second part is the same as center, and looks like the hour handle on a clock…

Nicole Cheah
Nicole Cheah
3 years ago

the right hand side of the character is 中. how i remember this character as meaning clock is remembering the phrase ___ 分钟 (fen zhong). this means minutes, thus it makes me think of a clock.

Saffi Ullah
Saffi Ullah
2 years ago

Sounds like and contains 中 (zhong). Looks very similar to 种 but a different radical. Metal radical signifying a square clock with a needle which either shows 12:30 or 6:00.

Amina Almatova
Amina Almatova
2 years ago

To me, 钅 looks like a clock handle that ticks around which always helps me remember that this character means clock.

Dinobi Ibegbu
Dinobi Ibegbu
1 year ago

There is a metal radical plus what looks like a watch with the two straps sticking out so I remember it is a CLOCK. The second part of the character is 中 so I remember the prononciation.

Nomun Altan-Ochir
Nomun Altan-Ochir
1 year ago

We have a metal radical in this character, and on the right, we see 中。 The clock is made of metal. To remember its pronunciation, we need to use 中。

Silu
Silu
1 year ago

Metal character on the left followed by 中。

Crystal Lin
Crystal Lin
1 year ago

the left side of the character has the metal radical and the right side of the character has the word 中, which has the same pinyin. hence, you need metal to make a clock.

Hyounsuk(Kevin) Ock
Hyounsuk(Kevin) Ock
1 year ago

by connecting metal radical and 中, which means in the middle, we can come up with the idea of metal in the middle, which is also clock(Because clock often have metal parts in the middle and needles moves circle to point the time. also to memorize its pronounciation, we just have to remember the 中 as it has really similar pronounciation.

Jinu Shim
Jinu Shim
1 year ago

Left radical means metal and the right side means middle.

Dinobi Ibegbu
Dinobi Ibegbu
1 year ago

It is pronounced as 中 and also contains that and the metal radical. I also rmember that beside the meta radical, there is what looks like a square watch face with the two watch straps. It means CLOCK.

AJ Noble
AJ Noble
1 year ago

the two part of character are the metal radical and the middle. Typically clocks are hung in the middle of the wall, so you can think of it at the metal middle of the room.

egi
egi
10 months ago

the second radical 中 means in middle, it reminds me hands of a clock.

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
jeff
jeff
10 months ago

the zhong on the right looks like the clock itself, while the radical on the left represents the arrow

Nomu
Nomu
3 months ago

the first part ‘qian’ is the same character part as the word for money, this reminds me of the quote ‘time is money’ and the second part is ‘zhong’ so anyone can remember how to pronounce it easily.

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai