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

hour / CL:個|个[ge4]

in one's childhood

(in) real time / instantaneous

time bomb

to fix a time / fixed time / timed (of explosive etc)

timer

to judge the hour and size up the situation / to take stock

timer / timing clock / alarm clock

,

being bright at an early age does not necessarily bring success upon growing up (proverb)

r

erhua variant of 小時候|小时候[xiao3 shi2 hou5]

hourly worker / hourly job

bedtime

settling time (control theory)

perfect tense (grammar)

timed detonator

time-lapse photography

3-5 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)

FTSE (British provider of stock exchange indices such as FTSE 100)

to examine and judge the situation

feudal times

Sentences with 時

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