Chinese symbol for “hour”
小时
xiǎo shí
Traditional: 小時
hour
The closest CC-CEDICT match for hour is 小时 (xiǎo shí), defined as: hour.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “hour”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 钟头 (鐘頭) | zhōng tóu | (coll.) hour |
| 时 (時) | shí | o'clock; time |
| 钟点 (鐘點) | zhōng diǎn | hour; specified time |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 小时.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小说 (小說) | xiǎo shuō | novel; fiction |
| 小学 (小學) | xiǎo xué | elementary school; primary school |
| 小姐 | xiǎo jie | young lady; miss |
| 小组 (小組) | xiǎo zǔ | group |
| 小孩 | xiǎo hái | child; 个 (gè) |
| 时间 (時間) | shí jiān | (concept of) time; (duration of) time |
| 时候 (時候) | shí hou | time; length of time |
| 同时 (同時) | tóng shí | at the same time; simultaneously |
See also: Japanese symbol for “hour”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.