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时 — stroke order
Watch how to write 时 (shí) stroke by stroke. 时 has 7 strokes and means “time”. It appears in common words such as 时候 (time) and 时间 (time). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 时
The most common words that use 时 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
How 时 is written
- Radical
- 日
- Components
- 日 ＋ 寸
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 日 (day).