The first item he bought was an alarm clock.
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闹钟
Traditional: 鬧鐘
nào zhōng
HSK 3.0 · 4
nào zhōng · naau6 zung1 (Jyutping)
- alarm clock
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Character breakdown
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
It's much better to be woken by the birds than by an alarm.
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