shí

time; when; o'clock

Character data

Radical ⽇ (72.6)
Strokes 10
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

時 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

時 stroke order diagram

Words containing 時

Word Meaning
separated in time (usu. followed by a quantity of time)
appearing and disappearing (idiom); intermittently visible
harmony; concord
intermittently visible; appearing and disappearing
fashionable; in vogue
point of time (in time-based systems)
partly cloudy (meteorology)
for the time being; temporary; provisional
time-lapse photography
not so long ago; just a while before
sometimes; now and then
sometimes
sometimes; at times
1-3 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
Li Shizhen, Ming doctor, author of Bencao Gangmu
Eastern Standard Time (EST)
sometime
GMT; Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
most flourishing period; Golden Age
standard time
Opportunity knocks but once. (idiom)
(literary) temporarily
to talk slowly and in depth (idiom)
happy time; happy hour (in bars etc)