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午时

wǔ shí

2-character word Traditional 午時

What 午时 means

1. 11 am-1 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)

The characters in 午时

• 午wǔ7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of…
• 时shío'clock; time; when

Example sentences

• 正午时分钟声响起。
  Zhèngwǔ shífēn zhōng shēngxiǎng qǐ.
  The bell rings at noon.
• 周五上午时间非常紧迫。
  Time was in short supply on Friday morning.
• 他中午时分才抵达小镇。
  It was around noon when he reached the town.

Sounds the same

Read wǔ shí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 五十fifty