钟 (zhōng) means Bell (clock - adore). Below are 24 of the 29 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
一分 钟 有六十秒。
Yì fēnzhōng yǒu liùshí miǎo.
There are sixty seconds in a minute.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 秒
我的手表慢了五分 钟 。
Wǒ de shǒubiǎo màn le wǔ fēnzhōng.
My watch is five minutes slow.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 手表
我们提前十分 钟 到了。
Wǒmen tíqián shí fēnzhōng dào le.
We arrived ten minutes early.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 提前
现在离上课还有十分 钟 。
Xiànzài lí shàng kè hái yǒu shí fēnzhōng.
There are still ten minutes before class.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 离
那儿不远，走路十分 钟 。
Nàr bù yuǎn, zǒu lù shí fēnzhōng.
It's not far — ten minutes on foot.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 远
飞机将在十分 钟 后降落。
Fēijī jiāng zài shí fēnzhōng hòu jiàngluò.
The plane will land in ten minutes.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 降落
时间不多了，只剩十分 钟 。
Shíjiān bù duō le, zhǐ shèng shí fēnzhōng.
There is not much time; only ten minutes left.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 剩
潜水时他能憋气一分多 钟 。
Qiánshuǐ shí tā néng biē qì yì fēn duō zhōng.
He can hold his breath for over a minute when diving.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 憋
两班车的间隔是十五分 钟 。
Liǎng bān chē de jiàngé shì shíwǔ fēnzhōng.
The interval between the two buses is fifteen minutes.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 间隔
从这儿走路去学校要十分 钟 。
Cóng zhèr zǒu lù qù xuéxiào yào shí fēnzhōng.
It's a ten-minute walk from here to school.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 走
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From the graded readers
坐车要二十分 钟 。
zuò chē yào èrshí fēnzhōng.
It takes twenty minutes by bus.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
那时候只要十分 钟 。
nàshí hòu zhǐyào shífēn zhōng.
Then it only takes ten minutes.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
我骑车去学校，要三十分 钟 。
wǒ qí chē qù xuéxiào, yào sānshí fēnzhōng.
I cycle to school; it takes thirty minutes.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
超市离我家很近，走路只要十分 钟 。
chāoshì lí wǒ jiā hěn jìn, zǒulù zhǐyào shífēn zhōng.
The supermarket is close to us — ten minutes on foot.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
第一天，我跑了八分 钟 就跑不动了。
dìyī tiān, wǒ pǎo le / liǎo / liào bā fēnzhōng jiù pǎo budòng le / liǎo / liào.
On the first day I lasted eight minutes before I couldn't go on.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
我最后还是出门了，只跑了十五分 钟 。
wǒ zuìhòu háishì chū mén le / liǎo / liào, zhī pǎo le / liǎo / liào shíwǔ fēnzhōng.
In the end I went out anyway, and only ran fifteen minutes.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
那家公司在市中心，坐地铁要四十分 钟 。
nà / nèi jiā gōngsī zài shì zhōngxīn, zuò dìtiě yào sìshí fēnzhōng.
The company is in the city centre, forty minutes by underground.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
等着付钱的人非常多，我排了二十分 钟 的队。
děngzhe fù qián de / dì rén fēicháng duō, wǒ pái le / liǎo / liào èrshí fēnzhōng de / dì duì.
There were a lot of people waiting; I queued for twenty minutes.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
我在路口等公共汽车，等了十分 钟 ，车还没有来。
wǒ zài lù kǒu děng gōnggòngqìchē, děng le / liǎo / liào shífēn zhōng, chē hái / huán méiyǒu lái.
I waited at the corner for the bus; after ten minutes it still hadn't come.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work
四年里说了那么多话，最后十分 钟 反而说不出来。
sìnián lǐ shuōle nàme duō huà, zuìhòu shífēn zhōng fǎn'ér shuō bùchū lái.
Four years of talking, and in the last ten minutes we couldn't manage anything.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Saying Goodbye
我停了大概三秒 钟 ——那三秒 钟 对我来说像三个小时。
wǒ tíng le / liǎo / liào dàgài sān miǎo zhōng—— nà / nèi sān miǎo zhōng duì wǒ láishuō xiàng sān gè xiǎoshí.
I stopped for about three seconds — three seconds that felt like three hours to me.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
From the travel phrasebook
这个要等二十分 钟 。
Zhège yào děng èrshí fēnzhōng.
That one takes twenty minutes.
Travel phrasebook · Reading a Chinese menu
钟 appears in 29 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 钟
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Questions about 钟
How is 钟 used in a sentence?
This page shows 29 sentences using 钟 (zhōng, "Bell (clock - adore)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 钟 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 钟 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 钟?
The dictionary page for 钟 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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