0060 - 時[시] - 때 - time, season; era, age, period

The Story [이야기] :

• It is a pictophonetic character.  The sun 日 suggests the meaning, while the temple 寺[사 → 시] suggests the sound. 
• To measure 寸 time, the ancients used the sun 日 as a guide as it cast shadows on objects here on earth 土.
• The "temple of God" 寺 dictates the passage of time and the days 日 in the whole universe.

Stroke Order [획순] :

New Vocabulary [새로운 단어] :

시 [時] - o'clock; time; hour
평시 [平時] - (1) time of peace; peacetime, (2) ordinary [normal] times

시간 [時間] - (1) time; an hour, (2) a class hour; a lesson; a class

생시 [生時] - (1) the time [hour] of one's birth, (2) one's waking hours, (3) one's lifetime
일시 [一時] - at one [a] time; once; for a time [while]; temporarily; all together; at the same time
일시 [日時] - day [date] and time
시일 [時日] - time; days; hours; the date; the date and hour; the time
매시 [每時] - every hour; per hour
시사 [時事] - the events of the day; current [present] events [affairs, issues, questions]
십이시 [十二時] - the "twelve(12) double-hour" partitions of the day in ancient China
자시 [子時] - the Watch of the Rat (the period between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m.) 
시인 [時人] - the people at that time
장시간 [長時間] - many long hours; long time

 

Example Sentences [예문] :

또한 時間대는 日광 절약 時間제에 따라 바뀔 수도 있다.
Time zones can also change due to Daylight Savings Time.

아직 北韓과 전쟁상태에 있는 南韓은 1994年에 平時작전통제권을 얻었다.
South Korea, still technically at war with the North, obtained peacetime command over its troops in 1994.