闹钟 (nào zhōng)

Character breakdown

• 闹 (nào) · 8 strokes

  Simplified form of 鬧. Markets (市) and fights (鬥) are noisy.

• 钟 (Zhōng) · 9 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 钅 represents the meaning and 中 represents the sound. Simplified form of 鐘.