时 shí

time, season; era, age, period

DEFINITIONS

  • time, season
  • era, age, period
  • old variant of 時|时[shi2]
  • surname Shi
  • o'clock
  • time
  • when
  • hour
  • season
  • period

STROKES

WORDS

时间是把杀猪刀 shí jiān shì bǎ shā zhū dāo lit. time is a butcher's knife; fig. time marches on, relentless and unforgiving; nothing gold can stay
时间测定学 shí jiān cè dìng xué chronometry
时间简史 shí jiān jiǎn shǐ "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
时间线 shí jiān xiàn timeline
时间轴 shí jiān zhóu time axis; timeline
时间进程 shí jiān jìn chéng time course
时雍 shí yōng concord; harmony
时显时隐 shí xiǎn shí yǐn appearing and disappearing; intermittently visible
时点 shí diǎn point of time (in time-based systems)
晴时多云 qíng shí duō yún partly cloudy (meteorology)
旷时摄影 kuàng shí shè yǐng time-lapse photography
有的时候 yǒu de shí hòu sometimes; at times
未时 wèi shí 1-3 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
李时珍 lǐ shí zhēn Li Shizhen (1518-1593), Ming botanist and pharmacologist, author of Compendium of Medical Herbs 本草綱目|本草纲目[Ben3 cao3 Gang1 mu4]
东部时间 dōng bù shí jiān Eastern Standard Time (EST)
某时 mǒu shí sometime
格林威治标准时间 gé lín wēi zhì biāo zhǔn shí jiān Greenwich Mean Time; GMT
格林尼治标准时间 gé lín ní zhì biāo zhǔn shí jiān Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
极盛时期 jí shèng shí qī most flourishing period; Golden Age
机不可失，时不再来 jī bù kě shī ， shí bù zài lái Opportunity knocks but once. (idiom)
权时 quán shí (literary) temporarily
款语移时 kuǎn yǔ yí shí to talk slowly and in depth (idiom)
欢乐时光 huān lè shí guāng happy time; happy hour (in bars etc)
正时 zhèng shí timing (of an engine)
正当时 zhèng dāng shí the right time for sth; the right season (for planting cabbage)
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