Measure word
- 段 duàn paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc attested in use
- 点 diǎn point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot; to check on a list; to choose; to order... attested in use
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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一时间我还以为他疯了。
For a moment there, I thought he had gone mad.
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不要以为我已经忘了你，你在我的脑海中，但我抽不出时间给你写信。
Don't think I've forgotten you already, you've been on my mind, but I haven't been able to take the time to write to you.
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不赶时间的人们站在自动扶梯的右边。
People who are not in a hurry stand on the right side of the escalator.
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两个老人打牌消磨著时间。
The two old men while away the time playing cards.
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今天很抱歉，让你等了这么多时间。
I'm sorry that I made you wait for so long today.
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今晚我们有充分的时间。
We have plenty of time tonight.
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从这里步行到你家要多长时间？
How long does it take from here to your house on foot?