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Mythic Mandarin

准时 (zhǔn shí): meaning and stroke order

准时 (zhǔn shí) means on time, punctual, on schedule.

准时

Simplified
准时
Traditional
準時
Pinyin
zhǔn shí

Stroke order of 准时

准

  • zhǔn to allow; to grant
  • zhǔn accurate; standard
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 準

Stroke by stroke

时

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 准时

  1. zhǔn shí Traditional 準時
    • on time
    • punctual
    • on schedule

Radicals of the characters

准
Radical 冫 (Kangxi radical 15) · 10 strokes · 冫 on the left, 隹 on the right
时
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 7 strokes · 日 on the left, 寸 on the right

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.

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).