时時 in English

Measure word

• 季 jì season; the last month of a season; fourth or youngest amongst brothers; classifier for seasonal crop yields attested in use
• 岁 suì classifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests) attested in use

Stroke order

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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 時, the traditional character: 时 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 11 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• “你什么时候回来？”“这都要看天气。”

  "When will you come back?" "It all depends on the weather."

• 23点我打电话给她的时候，她已经去睡觉了。

  She had already gone to bed when I phoned her at 11:00 p.m.

• Jane 年轻时曾做过女乘务员。

  Jane was a stewardess when she was young.

• Mick等待约会的时候靠读杂志打发时间。

  Mick killed time by reading a magazine while waiting for his date.

• 一个入室盗窃者趁我去旅游的时候闯入了我家。

  A burglar broke into my house while I was away on a trip.

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