Radical 钅

9 strokes

鐘

gold 钅 (278a) + middle 中 (33) = clock 钟

点钟 (185) diǎnzhōng o’ clock

钟头 (246) zhōngtóu hour (spoken Chinese)

分钟 (73) fēnzhōng a minute

In the middle of a gold block is set a clock. / The giant who made it had also etched his jonquil design into the gold. (Remember jonquils? See Character 33).

We will treat this as a basic building block. It is the form taken by the character 金 (which is in HSK Level B) when acting as the left-hand side of another character.