时
Meaning
- o'clock
- time
- when
Example sentence
快三时了。
It is almost three.
The character 时
时 is 日, the sun, beside 寸: time told by where the sun stands. 时间 time itself, 时候 the moment, 小时 an hour, 当时 back then, 平时 ordinarily, 随时 at any moment.
Words containing 时
- 时候 shí hou time
- 时间 shí jiān (concept of) time
- 小时 xiǎo shí hour
- 有时候 yǒu shí hou sometimes
- 当时 dāng shí then; at that time
- 那时候 nà shí hou at that time
- 平时 píng shí ordinarily
- 随时 suí shí at any time; at all times
- 同时 tóng shí at the same time; simultaneously
- 小时候 xiǎo shí hou in one's childhood
- 这时候 zhè shí hòu at this moment
- 及时 jí shí timely; at the right time
- 时代 shí dài age
- 时刻 shí kè time
- 按时 àn shí on time
- 临时 lín shí as the time draws near