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时辰 (shí chen): meaning and stroke order

时辰 (shí chen) means time, one of the 12 two-hour periods of the day.

时辰

Simplified
时辰
Traditional
時辰
Pinyin
shí chen

Stroke order of 时辰

时

  • shí old variant of 時|时[shi2]
  • Shí surname Shi
  • shí o'clock; time
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 旹

Stroke by stroke

辰

  • chén 5th earthly branch: 7-9 a.m., 3rd solar month (5th April-4th May), year of the Dragon; ancient Chinese compass point: 120°
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 时辰

  1. shí chen Traditional 時辰
    • time
    • one of the 12 two-hour periods of the day

Radicals of the characters

时
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 7 strokes · 日 on the left, 寸 on the right
辰
Radical 辰 (Kangxi radical 161) · 7 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

时辰 in our stories

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  • 龙王为了赢这场赌，偷偷把下雨的时间推迟了一个时辰，又少下了三寸八点。

    Lóngwáng wèile yíng zhè chǎng dǔ tōutōu bǎ xiàyǔ de shíjiān tuīchí le yí gè shíchen yòu shǎo xià le sān cùn bā diǎn

    To win the bet, the Dragon King secretly delayed the rain by one double-hour and made it three inches and eight drops less.

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 时辰

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).