時

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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Etymology

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Ideogrammic compound (會意): 日 (“‘time’”) + 寺 (“‘temple’”): in ancient China a gong was sounded every two hours to tell the time.

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 日 (“‘time’”) + 寺 (phonetic).

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時 (radical 72 日+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 日土木戈 (AGDI), four-corner 64041, composition ⿰日寺)

  1. time, season
  2. hour
  3. era, age, period

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  • KangXi: page 494, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13890
  • Dae Jaweon: page 859, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1505, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6642

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時 (simplified 时, jyutping si4, Yale si4)

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[edit] Noun

時 (hiragana とき, romaji toki)

  1. time
  2. a case
  3. time of something
  4. a season
  5. a tense

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時 (hiragana じ, romaji ji)

  1. hour, o'clock
    時計を見ると、ちょうど十二時三十四分五十六秒だった。
    とけいをみると、ちょうどじゅうにじさんじゅうよんぷんごじゅうろくびょうだった。
    Tokei o miru to, chōdo jūni-ji sanjūyon-pun gojūroku-byō datta.
    When I looked at the clock, it was just 56 seconds past 12:34.

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[edit] Kanji

時 (grade 2 kanji)

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時 (hangeul 시, revised si, McCune-Reischauer si, Yale si)

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時 (simplified 时, pinyin shí (shi2), Wade-Giles shih2)

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時 (thì, thời)

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