in English

shí noun, measure word HSK 2
o'clock / time / when / hour / season / period

Measure word

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

Stroke order

Le caractère 时 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 时 Show the animation
Le caractère 時 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

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: 時 Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦
  • Clerical script: 時 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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