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
- 时运亨通(時運亨通) our luck is in, everything is going smoothly
- 彼一时此一时(彼一時此一時) that was one thing, and this is another; times have changed
- 此时此地(此時此地) here and now; as things stand
- 临时政府(臨時政府) provisional government
- 何时(何時) when
- 瞬时(瞬時) instantaneous
- 轰动一时(轟動一時) to cause a sensation
- 正逢其时(正逢其時) to come at the right time; to be opportune
- 痛砭时弊(痛砭時弊) to strongly criticize the evils of the day
- 时态(時態) tense
- 冰河时代(冰河時代) ice age
- 即时制(即時制) real-time (gaming)
- 时空错置感(時空錯置感) sense of being in another time and place; feeling that one has entered a time warp
- 临时分居(臨時分居) trial separation
- 时尚(時尚) fashion
- 到时(到時) at that (future) time
- 俗随时变(俗隨時變) customs change with time; other times, other manners
- 定时信管(定時信管) timed detonator
- 天时(天時) the time; the right time; weather conditions; destiny; course of time; heaven's natural order
- 废时(廢時) to waste time
- 立时(立時) immediately; promptly
- 时下(時下) at present; right now
- 办公时间(辦公時間) office hours
- 滴漏计时器(滴漏計時器) hourglass; water clock; clepsydra
- 异时(異時) past time
- 八小时工作制(八小時工作制) eight-hour working day
- 藏器待时(藏器待時) to conceal one's abilities and wait; to lie low and await the opportune moment
- 聪明一世,糊涂一时(聰明一世,糊塗一時) even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgment; every man has a fool in his sleeve
- 中石器时代(中石器時代) Mesolithic Era
- 当地时间(當地時間) local time
- 一时一地(一時一地) at one place and time
- 战时(戰時) wartime
- 首次注视时间(首次注視時間) first fixation duration
- 小时(小時) hour
- 时序(時序) a time sequence
- 识时达务(識時達務) understanding; to know what's up
- 反时针(反時針) counterclockwise
- 计时器(計時器) timer; chronograph; timepiece; clock; timekeeping device (sundial, water clock)
- 过渡时期(過渡時期) transition
- 时辰(時辰) time; one of the 12 two-hour periods of the day
- 反应时间(反應時間) response time (technology)
Also contained in
青铜器时代 、 临时澳门市政执行委员会 、 华盛顿时报 、 鹿苑时 、 分时多工 、 学习时报 、 五时八教 、 印度时报 、 时代曲 、 方等时
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- 卷三十七 志第十三 曆七 Volume 37 Treatises 13: Calendar 7 History of Ming 明史 — count: 92
- 卷22 志第17 五行上 Volume 22 Treatises 17: Five Elements 1 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 78
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- 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
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- 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
- 时厥 (時厥) 時厥明 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 泰誓下 Zhou Shu - Great Declaration III — count: 4
- 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
- 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
- 时叙 (時敘) 百揆時敘 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 舜典 Yu Shu - Canon of Shun — count: 3
- 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: 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
- 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