时

time; hour

No. 26 most used · 0.31% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 321.

How it's built

• 日sun
• 寸inch

A way to remember it

The sun (日) moves an inch (寸): time passes.

Words

• 时候

  shí hou

  time; length of time; moment
• 时间

  shí jiān

  (concept of) time; (duration of) time; (point in) time
• 小时

  xiǎo shí

  hour
• 当时

  dāng shí

  then; at that time
• 那时

  nà shí

  then; at that time; in those days
• 有时

  yǒu shí

  sometimes; now and then

Sentences

• 他当时一个人在家。

  tā dāng shí yí ge rén zài jiā

  He was home alone at the time.
• 任何时间我都可以。

  rèn hé shí jiān wǒ dōu kě yǐ

  Any time will suit me.
• 你的时间快用完了。

  nǐ de shí jiān kuài yòng wán le

  Your time is running out.
• 我一小时内来见你。

  wǒ yì xiǎo shí nèi lái jiàn nǐ

  I'll see you in an hour.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.