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鐘

bell
Stroke count: 20

Readings

On readingショウ
Kun readingかね

Meanings

  1. bellRtK
    二人が教会から出ていく時に、鐘が鳴り響いた。The bells chimed as the couple left the church.tatoeba
    鐘はもう鳴ったのか。Has the bell rung yet?tatoeba
  2. gong
  3. chimes
  1. bell (often a large hanging bell)

Synonyms

チャイムブザーベル鉦

Homonyms

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Same reading (かね)
金 · money

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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metal (金) · gold (金) · juvenile · vase · stand up (立) · computer

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 470

Compound words

鐘の合図で彼らは食事をした。
The bell chimed them to meals.tatoeba
鐘が鳴るとすぐ我々は起き上がった。
Directly the bell rang, we got up.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

まもなくこの大きな鐘の音も沈黙して、別な弱い単調な小さな鐘の音にとってかわられた。
まもなくこのおおきなかねのおともちんもくして、べつなよわいたんちょうなちいさなかねのおとにとってかわられた。Soon this large bell's sound fell silent and was replaced by another weak, monotonous small bell sound.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

20 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 鐘

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