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時
時
See also: 时
Translingual
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Han character
時 (radical 72 日+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 日土木戈 (AGDI), four-corner 64041, composition ⿰日寺)
Derived characters
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
Chinese
| trad. | 時 | |
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| simp. | 时 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 時
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (寺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 等 | *tɯːʔ, *tɯːŋʔ |
| 待 | *dɯːʔ |
| 寺 | *ljɯs |
| 持 | *l'ɯ |
| 峙 | *dɯʔ |
| 痔 | *dɯʔ |
| 跱 | *dɯʔ |
| 歭 | *dɯʔ |
| 洔 | *dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ |
| 畤 | *dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ, *djɯʔ |
| 秲 | *dɯʔ, *djɯs |
| 庤 | *dɯʔ |
| 時 | *djɯ |
| 鰣 | *djɯ |
| 塒 | *djɯ |
| 蒔 | *djɯ, *djɯs |
| 榯 | *djɯ |
| 恃 | *djɯʔ |
| 侍 | *djɯs |
| 詩 | *hljɯ |
| 邿 | *hljɯ |
| 特 | *dɯːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djɯ) : semantic 日 (“sun; day”) + phonetic 寺 (OC *ljɯs).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): si4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sṳ̀
- Min Dong (BUC): sṳ̀
- Min Nan (POJ): sî
- Wu (Wiktionary): zr (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄕˊ
- Wade-Giles: shih2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyr
- IPA (key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: si4
- Yale: sìh
- Cantonese Pinyin: si4
- IPA (key): /siː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ̀
- Hakka Romanization System: siiˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: si2
- IPA: /sɨ¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: sṳ̀
- IPA (key): /sy⁵³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sî
- Tâi-lô: sî
- Phofsit Daibuun: sii
- IPA (Xiamen): /ɕi²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕi²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕi¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /ɕi²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕi²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: zr (T3)
- IPA (key): /z̻z̩²³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 時 |
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| Mandarin | Beijing | /ʂʐ̩³⁵/ |
| Harbin | /ʂʐ̩²⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /sz̩⁴⁵/ | |
| Jinan | /ʂʐ̩⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao | /ʂʐ̩⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /ʂʐ̩⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /sz̩²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /sz̩²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /ʂʐ̩⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /ʂʐ̩⁵³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /sz̩⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /sz̩²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /sz̩³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /sz̩²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /ʂʐ̩³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /ʂʐ̩²⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /sz̩¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /sz̩¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /sz̩³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /zz̩²³/ |
| Suzhou | /zz̩ʷ¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /zz̩²¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /zz̩³¹/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /sz̩⁴⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /ɕi⁴⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ʂʐ̩¹³/ |
| Xiangtan | /ʂʐ̩¹²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /sz̩⁴⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /sz̩¹¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /ʃï¹¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /si²¹/ |
| Nanning | /si²¹/ | |
| Hong Kong | /si²¹/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /si³⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /si⁵³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /si³³/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /si⁵⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /ti³¹/ |
| Rime | |
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| Character | 時 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 常 (25) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 市之切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/d͡ʑɨ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/d͡ʑɨ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/d͡ʑie/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/d͡ʑɨ/ |
| Li Rong |
/ʑiə/ |
| Wang Li |
/ʑĭə/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ʑi/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
chí |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 時 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
shí |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ dzyi › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[d]ə/ (~ *[d]əʔ) |
| English | time |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 時 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12042 |
| Phonetic component |
寺 |
| Rime group |
之 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
時 |
| Old Chinese |
/*djɯ/ |
Definitions
時
- time, season
- seasonal
- hour
- era, age, period
- opportunity
- current, contemporary
- when, time when
- occasionally
Compounds
Derived terms from 時
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Japanese
Kanji
時
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Readings
Compounds
Derived terms
| Kanji in this term |
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| 時 |
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とき Grade: 2 |
| kun'yomi |
Noun
- time
- 2011, オワタP, アンデルツェ
- 時は戻せない
- Toki wa modosenai
- Time is irreversible
- 時は戻せない
- 2011, オワタP, アンデルツェ
- a case; occasion; time
- 現実逃避の時はWiktionaryを編集します。
- Genjitsu tōhi no toki wa Wiktionary o henshū shimasu.
- I edit Wiktionary when escaping reality.
- 困った時は私に相談してください。
- Komatta toki wa watashi ni sōdan shite kudasai.
- Please consult with me when troubled (in times of trouble).
- 2012, タカハシヨウ, その魔王はまるで恋する乙女のように
- こんな時は花占いだ！
- Konna toki wa hanauranai da!
- こんな時は花占いだ！
- 現実逃避の時はWiktionaryを編集します。
- time of something
- a season
- a tense
Counter
- 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。
- 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.
- 時計を見ると、ちょうど十二時三十四分五十六秒だった。
Derived terms
Derived terms
Related terms
Suffix
- at the time of