时 (時) shí
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shí
noun
time; a point or period of time
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
Notes: In this sense 时 is similar in meaning to 时间 (CCD '时' 1; FE '時' 3; GHDC '时' 3; Guoyu '時' n 7; Kroll 2015 '時' 3, p. 413) -
shí
noun
a season; a quarter of a year
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 时 is similar in meaning to 季节 (CCD '时' 3; FE '時' 1; GHDC '时' 1; Guoyu '時' n 1; Kroll 2015 '時' 1, p. 412) -
shí
noun
one of the 12 two-hour periods of the day
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 时 is similar in meaning to 时辰 (CCD '时' 6a; GHDC '时' 2; Guoyu '時' n 2; Kroll 2015 '時' 2, p. 413) -
shí
adverb
at that time
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 时 is a function word in Literary Chinese similar in meaning to 时候 in modern Chinese (Pulleyblank 1995, p. 160; Guoyu '時' n 6; Kroll 2015 '时' 5a, p. 413; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 1781). For example, 當今之時 'At the present time' (Mengzi: 3.1/14/28, translation by Legge) -
shí
adjective
fashionable
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 时 is similar in meaning to 时尚, 时俗, or 时髦 (CCD '时' 5; FE '時' 6; GHDC '时' 9; Kroll 2015 '時' 3a, p. 413) -
shí
noun
fate; destiny; luck
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 时 is similar in meaning to 时运 or 命运 (Kroll 2015 '時' 4a, p. 413) -
shí
noun
occasion; opportunity; chance
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 时 is similar in meaning to 时机 or 机会 (CCD '时' 7; FE '時' 8; GHDC '时' 5; Guoyu '時' n 9; Kroll 2015 '時' 4, p. 413) -
shí
noun
tense
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Grammar
Notes: In this sense 时 is similar in meaning to 时态 (CCD '时' 10) -
shí
adjective
particular; special
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '時' 4b, p. 413) -
shí
verb
to plant; to cultivate
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '时' 7, p. 413) -
shí
measure word
hour (measure word)
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '時' n 4) -
shí
noun
an era; a dynasty
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 时代 (FE '時' 2; GHDC '时' 4; Guoyu '時' n 5) -
shí
noun
time [abstract]
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As an abstract concept, in the sense of 岁月 (Guoyu '時' n 8) -
shí
adjective
seasonal
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '時' 1a, p. 413) -
shí
adverb
frequently; often
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 时 is similar in meaning to 常常 or 经常 (FE '時' 5; GHDC '时' 6; Guoyu '時' adv 1; Kroll 2015 '时' 5b, p. 413) -
shí
adverb
occasionally; sometimes
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 时 is similar in meaning to 有时 or 偶尔 (CCD '时' 8; FE '時' 10; Guoyu '時' adv 2; Kroll 2015 '时' 5, p. 413) -
shí
adverb
on time
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 时 is similar in meaning to 按时 (FE '時' 9; GHDC '时' 7) -
shí
pronoun
this; that
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Preclassical; in this sense 时 is similar in meaning to the demonstrative pronouns 此 or 这 (GHDC '时' 13; Kroll 2015 '时' 6, p. 413; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 89) -
shí
verb
to wait upon
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 时 is similar in meaning to 伺候 (GHDC '时' 11) -
shí
noun
hour
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 时 is similar in meaning to 小时 (CCD '时' 6b; FE '時' 4; Guoyu '時' n 3) -
shí
adjective
appropriate; proper; timely
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 时宜 (FE '時' 7; GHDC '时' 8; Guoyu '時' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '時' 1a, p. 413) -
shí
proper noun
Shi
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (CCD '时' 11; FE '時' 11; GHDC '时' 15; Guoyu '時' n 10) -
shí
adjective
a present; currentlt
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 当前 or 现在 (CCD '时' 4; Guoyu '時' adj 2)
Contained in
- 时调(時調) regional folk song popular during a certain period of time
- 岁时(歲時) seasons of the year ; a particular time of the year ; time
- 战时(戰時) wartime
- 很多时(很多時) often
- 过渡时期(過渡時期) transition
- 时日无多(時日無多) time is limited
- 在家千日好,出门一时难(在家千日好,出門一時難) at home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort, but spending a day away from home can be challenging
- 时大时小(時大時小) sometimes big, sometimes small; varying
- 时装摄影(時裝攝影) fashion photography
- 登时(登時) immediately; at once
- 时下(時下) at present; right now
- 时雍(時雍) concord; harmony
- 时钟方向(時鐘方向) clockwise
- 加时(加時) overtime
- 儿时(兒時) childhood
- 伤停补时(傷停補時) injury time
- 过去时(過去時) past tense
- 趋时(趨時) to follow fashion
- 巳时(巳時) 9-11 am
- 失时(失時) to miss an opportunity
- 有的时候(有的時候) sometimes; at times
- 补时(補時) to extend the duration of a game (due to stoppages) /
- 富时(富時) FTSE
- 时间轴(時間軸) time axis; timeline
- 平时不烧香,临时抱佛脚(平時不燒香,臨時抱佛腳) to clasp the Buddha's feet when danger arises; to profess devotion only when in trouble; doing things at the last minute
- 痛砭时弊(痛砭時弊) to strongly criticize the evils of the day
- 时装秀(時裝秀) fashion show
- 时显时隐(時顯時隱) appearing and disappearing; intermittently visible
- 因时制宜(因時制宜) to use methods suitable to the current situation
- 守时(守時) punctual
- 临时(臨時) temporary; interim; ad hoc
- 顿时(頓時) suddenly; at once; immediately; forthwith
- 核时代(核時代) nuclear age
- 天时(天時) the time; the right time; weather conditions; destiny; course of time; heaven's natural order
- 时局(時局) the current political situation
- 切中时弊(切中時弊) to hit home on the evils of the day; to hit a current political target
- 营业时候(營業時候) opening hours (shop, bank, restaurant)
- 安培小时(安培小時) ampere-hour (Ah)
- 按时间先后(按時間先後) chronological
- 时有所闻(時有所聞) heard from time to time; one keeps hearing that...
- 不违农时(不違農時) not miss the farming season; do farm work in the right season
- 待时而动(待時而動) wait for a suitable time before acting
- 及时行乐(及時行樂) to enjoy the present; to live happily with no thought for the future; make merry while you can
Also contained in
战国时代 、 纽约时报 、 奈良时代 、 实时计算 、 海峡时报 、 非时食 、 明清时期 、 新石器时代
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- 卷二十九 志第十九 五行下 Volume 29 Treatises 19: Five Elements Part Three Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 104
- 卷三十七 志第十三 曆七 Volume 37 Treatises 13: Calendar 7 History of Ming 明史 — count: 94
- 卷22 志第17 五行上 Volume 22 Treatises 17: Five Elements 1 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 78
- 卷二百二十四 列傳第一百十二 嚴清 宋纁 陸光祖 孫鑨 陳有年 孫丕揚 蔡國珍 楊時喬 Volume 224 Biographies 112: Yan Qing, Song Xun, Lu Guangzu, Sun Long, Chen Younian, Sun Piyang, Cai Guozhen, Yang Shiqiao History of Ming 明史 — count: 78
- 卷二十一 魏書二十一 王衛二劉傅傳 Volume 21: Book of Wei 21 - Biographies of Wang, Wei, and the two Lius Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 74
- 卷二十八 志第十八 五行中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Five Elements Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 73
- 卷二十七 志第十七 五行上 Volume 27 Treatises 17: Five Elements Part One Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 73
- 卷二百十八 列傳第一百〇六 申時行 王錫爵 沈一貫 方從哲 沈㴶 Volume 218 Biographies 106: Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue, Shen Yiguan, Fang Congzhe, Shen Que History of Ming 明史 — count: 72
- 第五十六回 Chapter 56 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 69
- 卷八十九 列傳第七十七: 藝術上 Volume 89 Biographies 77: Diviners 1 History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 67
Collocations
- 刺时 (刺時) 刺時也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧靜女 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Jing Nu — count: 14
- 时谓 (時謂) 時謂巫風 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 伊訓 Shang Shu - Instructions of Yi — count: 4
- 时迈 (時邁) 時邁 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 周頌‧清廟之什‧時邁 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Qing Miao - Shi Mai — count: 4
- 曰时 (曰時) 曰止曰時 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧緜 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Mian — count: 4
- 时维 (時維) 時維鷹揚 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧大明 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Da Ming — count: 4
- 时周 (時周) 時周之命 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 周頌‧閔予小子之什‧賚 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Min Yu Xiao Zi - Lai — count: 3
- 时叙 (時敘) 百揆時敘 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 舜典 Yu Shu - Canon of Shun — count: 3
- 时人 (時人) 時人斯其惟皇之極 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 洪範 Zhou Shu - Great Plan — count: 3
- 未成年时 (未成年時) 古代男女未成年时把头发扎成丫髻 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧氓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mang — count: 3
- 帝时 (帝時) 惟帝時克 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 大禹謨 Yu Shu - Counsels of the Great Yu — count: 2