Coloring a part of an object

Hello!
I'm new to Illustrator and I came across a little problem. This is very simple and I'm sorry if the question already exist somewhere in the forums, I've searched for it, but I can't find what I need.
I am trying to color a part of an object in specific form. (see the picture below)
So, I have a restangular and a circle in different color. What I am trying to achieve is only the part of the circle that is over the restangular to be visible (example with photoshop- restangular on layer 1, circle on another layer above it, alt+click to create a clipping mask and it will produce the effect im looking for). However, when creating clipping mask here (from object-clipping mask-make) it seems that either the circle or the restangular will disappear. Any ideas? Are there other ways to achieve this, or I'm looking into the wrong one?
Thanks in advance!

You already wrote the answer: clipping mask.
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https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/clipping-masks.html

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