時

shí = sh + Ø2

o'clock / time / when / hour / season / period

时 = 寸 + 日 : Mnemonic symbol: a giant pocket watch.

The sun (日) asks Sherlock Holmes (sh) out for a coffee in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). Looking at his pocket watch (时), Sherlock sees he has time, winks and "thumbs up" (寸).

時 character breakdown

時
- 寺
  - 土
    - 一
    - 十
      - 一
      - 丨
  - 寸
    - 一
    - 丶
    - 亅
- 日
  - 一
  - 囗

sì = s + Ø4

Buddhist temple / mosque / government office (old)

寺 = 土 + 寸 : Socrates (s) built a Buddhist temple (寺) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). To protect it from being destroyed while floating around in zero gravity, he built a protective frame made out of mud (土) around it. After finishing it he inspects it and thinks "thumbs up" (寸), because he is proud of his work.

rì = r + Ø4

abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan

rì = r + Ø4

sun / day / date, day of the month

日 = 囗 + 一 : Robinson Crusoe (r) is hiding from the sun (日) in an enclosure (囗) full of flutes (一) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

Characters with 時 as component

shí = sh + Ø2

see 蒔蘿|莳萝[shi2 luo2]

shì = sh + Ø4

to grow / to transplant / Taiwan pr. [shi2]

shí = sh + Ø2

shad / Ilisha elongata

shí = sh + Ø2

hen roost

Words with 時

when

Porsche (car company)

daily schedule / daily routine

China Times (newspaper), abbr. for 中國時報|中国时报[Zhong1 guo2 Shi2 bao4]

Mesolithic Era

the time of the incident

9-11 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)

Beijing Times (newspaper)

when? / at what time?

this day and age (dialect)

daily schedule / work schedule

customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners / O Tempora, O Mores!

information age

to adjust to a different time zone

to count down / countdown

downtime (computer network, power plant etc)

parking meter

not miss the farming season / do farm work in the right season

1-3 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)

China Times (newspaper)

Sentences with 時

時 currently does not appear in any sentence.