| shí | o'clock/time/when/hour/season/period/surname Shi |
| 时 | surname Shi |
| 时…时… | now...now... |
| 时下 | at present right now |
| 时不再来 | Time that has passed will never come back. (idiom) |
| 时不可失 | seize a chance |
| 时不宜迟 | There's no time to be lost. |
| 时不我与 | Lost time is never found again. 2.Time is running out. |
| 时不我予 | Time will not wait for me. |
| 时不我待 | Time and tide wait for no man. |
| 时不时 | from time to time |
| 时世 | times |
| 时乖命蹇 | bad times, adverse fate (idiom) |
| 时乖运蹇 | run into bad luck |
| 时事 | current trends the present situation how things are going |
| 时人 | contemporaries |
| 时代 | age era epoch |
| 时代不同，风尚不同 | customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners O Tempora, O Mores! |
| 时代华纳 | Time Warner Inc., US media company |
| 时代广场 | Times Square |
| 时代感 | sense of the times |