Chinese symbol for “timing”
时序
shí xù
Traditional: 時序
timing (of a signal or sequence); time course
The closest CC-CEDICT match for timing is 时序 (shí xù), defined as: timing (of a signal or sequence); time course.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “timing”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 时序.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 当时 (當時) | dāng shí | then; at that time |
| 时期 (時期) | shí qī | period; phase |
| 程序 | chéng xù | procedures; sequence |
| 秩序 | zhì xù | order; orderliness (in society, in the classroom, on the roads etc) |
| 顺序 (順序) | shùn xù | sequence; order |
See also: Japanese symbol for “timing”.
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.