時
shí HSK3

time

时 時 shí
variant 旹
time noun
time; a period of time; an era or age
when particlepreposition
the time when something happens; used after a verb or clause to mean "at the time of" or "when"

我和你说话时看着我！

wǒ hé nǐ shuō huà shí kàn zhe wǒ!

Look at me when I'm talking to you!

选择产品时要小心。

xuǎn​zé chǎn​pǐn shí yào xiǎo​xīn.

Be careful when choosing products.

hour noun
(measure word) hour (duration); used for calculating time

到了10时半，酒吧里的人越来越多。

dào le10 shí bàn, jiǔ​bā li de rén yuè​lái​yuè duō.

By 10:30, there were more and more people in the bar.

opportunity nounadverb
(bound form) opportunity; chance; a favorable timing
current nounadjective
(bound form) current; present; of the moment; fashionable
constantly adverb
often; constantly; from time to time; frequently
o'clock measure wordnoun
(bound form) o'clock; used in writing to specify the hour of the day

别忘了明天六时来接我。

bié wàng le míng​tiān liù shí lái jiē wǒ.

Don't forget to pick me up at 6 o'clock tomorrow.

sometimes adverbverb
used in the pattern "shí... shí..." to mean "sometimes... sometimes..." or "now..., now..."
season locative
(bound form) season; time of year
tense noun
the grammatical category of tense, such as past, present, or future
Shi
the Chinese surname Shi
shichen
any of the twelve two-hour periods into which the day was traditionally divided

Cross-References

See

Frequency
Character
Written text
25th most common 4307.6 per million
Movie subtitles
49th most common 3471.6 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
699.7 per million appears in 85% of films
Written text
1491.0 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Simplified
时
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+6642

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)