shí

time; when; o'clock

Character data

HSK 1
Frequency 25th character
Radical ⽇ (72.3)
Strokes 7
Index # 717
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

时 shí
  1. 1. time
  2. 2. when
  3. 3. o'clock
  4. 4. hour
  5. 5. period
  6. 6. season
  7. 7. surname Shi
  8. 8. old variant of shí

Stroke order

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Words containing 时

Word Meaning
Neolithic Era
daylight saving time
the era of Japanese occupation
the period of Japanese rule
ten days
Spring and Autumn and Warring States era
Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)
bad times, adverse fate (idiom)
customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners
Times Square
old Shanghai pop music style
Time Warner Inc., US media company
prevalent custom of the time
time machine
ready at any moment
times create heroes; hard times make heroes
varying; sometimes big, sometimes small
sometimes good, sometimes bad
to write in fits and starts
contemporary problems; ills of the day
fashionable style; (linguistics) tense
timestamp
intermittent; on and off; stopping and starting
time is limited (idiom)
one keeps hearing that...; heard from time to time