Kanji 時 — "Time"
Here is what 時 means, how it is read, what it is built from, and a story that makes "Time" stick.
Also means: O'clock, Hour
How it is read
じ
the reading borrowed from Chinese — usually appears in compound words
とき, -どき
the native Japanese reading — usually appears when the kanji stands alone
How to remember it
Kanji are not random strokes. Learn the parts and the whole becomes easy. Put the parts together into one picture. The stranger it is, the harder it is to forget.
When the Sun rises, the Temple rings its bell to announce the Time!
- 日 Sun
The Sun in the sky is rectangular in shape. The stroke in the middle is a cloud blocking the sun so it doesn't glare in your eyes.
- 寺 Temple
This plot of Soil requires precise Measurement to build a Temple!
Words that use 時
12 of 26 words in the app that contain this kanji — the most common ones first.
- 時間 じかん time, hour
- 時代 じだい age, era, period, epoch, time
- 時には ときには occasionally, at times, sometimes
- 当時 とうじ at that time, in those days (same as そのころ)
- 時々 ときどき sometimes
- 時期 じき time, season, period
- 時計 とけい watch, clock
- 時刻 じこく time, hour
- 一時 いちじ for a time, temporarily
- 同時 どうじ simultaneous(ly), same time
- 臨時 りんじ temporary, special, extraordinary
- 江戸時代 えどじだい Edo Period
Want 時 to still be there next month?
Reading it once is not remembering it. The app brings each kanji back right before you would have forgotten it.
