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

childhood

at that (future) time

fashionable

eight-hour working day

kilometer per hour

the Six Dynasties period (222-589) between Han and Tang

synchronic / concurrent

if revenge breeds revenge, will there ever be an end to it? (Buddhist saying)

standard time (as opposed to daylight saving time 夏令時|夏令时[xia4 ling4 shi2])

ice age

ice age

time-sharing

time division multiplexing / TDM

to hit home on the evils of the day (idiom); fig. to hit a current political target / to hit the nub of the matter

to hit the target where it hurts (idiom); fig. to hit home / to hit the nail on the head (in an argument)

when the moment comes / at that time

until this moment

(sports) injury time

megawatt-hour

full-time work

Sentences with 時

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