时 shí
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 日 — sun
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
时速
shísù
speed per hour
Characters in this word
速 sù
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 束 to bind, to control, to restrain
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 高铁在平稳路段的时速可以超过三百公里。 Gāotiě zài píngwěn lùduàn de shísù kěyǐ chāoguò sānbǎi gōnglǐ. On stable sections of track, high-speed trains can exceed 300 kilometres per hour.
- 这辆车的时速已经超过了一百公里。 Zhè liàng chē de shísù yǐjīng chāoguò le yībǎi gōnglǐ. This car's speed has already passed 100 kilometres per hour.
- 市区里的限速是时速五十公里。 Shìqū lǐ de xiànsù shì shísù wǔshí gōnglǐ. The speed limit in the city centre is 50 kilometres per hour.
Related words
- 时候 shíhou time, moment
- 时间 shíjiān time
- 小时 xiǎoshí hour
- 有时候 yǒushíhou sometimes
- 当时 dāngshí at that time
- 那时候 nàshíhou at that time
- 平时 píngshí usually; in ordinary times
- 随时 suíshí at any time
- 同时 tóngshí at the same time
- 小时候 xiǎoshíhou in childhood; when young
- 这时候 zhèshíhòu at this time
- 及时 jíshí in time; promptly