old variant of 時|时[shi2]
o'clock / time / when / hour / season / period

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a giant pocket watch.

The sun (日) asks Sherlock Holmes (sh) out for a coffee in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). Looking at his pocket watch (时), Sherlock sees he has time, winks and "thumbs up" (寸).

时 character breakdown

a unit of length / inch / thumb

= + + : Kitty Cat is playing with a petal leaf in the encampment's bathroom. She's keeping it in the air by hitting it with a flute and a crowbar. It's so much fun that she thinks to herself "thumbs up".
abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan
sun / day / date, day of the month

= + : Robinson Crusoe (r) is hiding from the sun (日) in an enclosure (囗) full of flutes (一) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

Characters with 时 as component

see 蒔蘿|莳萝[shi2 luo2]
to grow / to transplant / Taiwan pr. [shi2]
shad / Ilisha elongata
hen roost

Words with 时

age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL:個|个[ge4]
Time, US weekly news magazine
at present / right now
current trends / the present situation / how things are going
time and tide wait for no man (idiom)
Time Warner Inc., US media company
prevalent custom of the time
Time makes the man (idiom). The trend of events brings forth the hero.
sometimes big, sometimes small / varying
to write for a bit then give up / to write in fits and starts
the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods / Eastern Zhou (770-221 BC)
Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)
bad times, adverse fate (idiom)
customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners / O Tempora, O Mores!
shidaiqu, a musical genre that originated in Shanghai in the 1920s, a fusion of Chinese folk music and Western jazz

Sentences with 时

zhè
shì
yǔ
wáng
zhì
shuǐ
shí