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

(in) real time / instantaneous
to fix a time / fixed time / timed (of explosive etc)
to judge the hour and size up the situation / to take stock
timer / timing clock / alarm clock
being bright at an early age does not necessarily bring success upon growing up (proverb)
erhua variant of 小時候|小时候[xiao3 shi2 hou5]
hourly worker / hourly job
settling time (control theory)
perfect tense (grammar)
3-5 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
FTSE (British provider of stock exchange indices such as FTSE 100)
to examine and judge the situation

Sentences with 时

zhè
shì
yǔ
wáng
zhì
shuǐ
shí