shí

time

Variant form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound, and represents the meaning.

Components
止 sound component

  Sound component

zhǐ

  

(foot), stop

日 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sun

Evolution

旹 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
旹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
旹 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
旹 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shí

time, season; era, age, period

() 

shí

old variant of |[shí]

Most common words with 旹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

时候

time

time

时间

time

小时

hour

同时

at the same time

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.9519% of movies

49th most common character in movies

25th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+65F9

Shuowen

“時,四時也。从日,寺聲。旹,古文時,从之、日。”


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