时 (時) shí

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)
  7. 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)
  8. 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)
  9. shí adjective particular; special
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '時' 4b, p. 413)
  10. shí verb to plant; to cultivate
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '时' 7, p. 413)
  11. shí measure word hour (measure word)
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (Guoyu '時' n 4)
  12. 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)
  13. 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)
  14. shí adjective seasonal
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '時' 1a, p. 413)
  15. 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)
  16. 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)
  17. 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)
  18. 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)
  19. 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)
  20. 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)
  21. 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)
  22. 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)
  23. 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)

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