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時
简 时 · 繁 時Characters in this entry
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Mandarin tones
2 · shi2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
si4
Cantonese word readings for 時. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- season
- time (a duration)
- time (the passing of time)
- times; years; era
- time; fixed time
- double-hour
- hour; o’clock (mainly in formal writing)
- opportunity; chance
- current; contemporary
- that time
- occasionally; from time to time
- (Weitou Cantonese) or
- (literary) timely
- (obsolete) beautiful; good
- (obsolete) this
- (grammar) tense
- a surname
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