時

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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[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).

[edit] Han character

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

[edit] References

• 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

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

時 (simplified 时, jyutping si4, Yale si4)

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

時 (hiragana とき, romaji toki)

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

[edit] Counter

時 (hiragana じ, romaji ji)

1. hour, o'clock

   時計を見ると、ちょうど12時34分56秒だった。

   Tokei o miruto, chōdo jūni ji sanjū-yon pun gojū-roku byō datta.

   when I looked at the clock, it was just 12:34:56.

[edit] Related terms

• 時間 (じかん, jikan): hours (duration)

[edit] Kanji

時 (grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: じ (ji), し (shi)
• Kun: とき (toki), これ (kore)

[edit] Compounds

[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

[edit] Compounds

• 時候

[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

時 (thì, thời)