shí
time
Variant form of 時. Phonosemantic compound. 止 represents the sound, and 日 represents the meaning.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 99.9519% of movies
49th most common character in movies
25th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+65F9 |
Shuowen | “時，四時也。从日，寺聲。旹，古文時，从之、日。” |
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