不时 bùshí

HSK level

Traditional form

不時

Part of speech

Conjunction / 连词 lián cí Lián cí

不 bù

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Pictograph of sepals of a flower. The meaning "no" is a phonetic loan.

Positional decomposition

⿱一 yī ？

Number of Strokes

时 shí

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Simplified form of 時 shí .

Semantic compound

日 Rì

Positional decomposition

⿰日寸

Number of Strokes

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他 tā 不时 bùshí 闻 Wén 到 dào 一 yī 股 gǔ 怪味 guài wèi .

Now and again , he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell.

从 Cóng 远处 yuǎn chù 敌人 dírén 的 de 牢房 láo fáng 里 lǐ 不时 bùshí 传来 chuán lái 惨 cǎn 不忍 bù rěn 闻 Wén 的尖叫声 shēng .

Heart - rending screams could now and then be heard from the enemy prison in the distance.

它 tā 又 yòu 回到 huí dào 老 lǎo 样子 yàngzi , 象 xiàng 一 yī 把 bǎ 烧 shāo 开 kāi 水 Shuǐ 的 de 壶 hú 似的 shìde ,不时 bùshí 散发 sànfā 着 zhāo 无害 wú hài 的 de 缕缕蒸汽 zhēng qì .

It'settled back to sporadic, harmless streaming like a simmering kettle.

它们 tā men (指 zhǐ 鞋子 xié zi )去年 qùnián 以及 yǐjí 前年 qián nián 是 shì 时兴 shí xīng 的 de , 但是 dànshì 今年 jīn nián 不 bù 时兴 shí xīng 了 le .

They were in fashion last year and the year befor last year. But they're not in fashion this year.

在 zài 加利福尼亚 Jiā lì fú ní yà ,已 yǐ 不时 bùshí 有人 yǒu rén 开玩笑 kāiwánxiào 地 de 提到 tí dào “ 只有 zhǐyǒu 两 liǎng 辆 liàng 汽车 qì chē 的 de 穷人 qióng rén 家 jiā 了 le . ”

Already in California joking references are sometimes made to the " under - privileged two - car family ".

See the 2 Chinese characters that make up 不时 bùshí and their own compounds.

不 bù

时 shí

日 Rì , 寸 cùn

See all 57 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 不时 bùshí in their composition.

不 bù

否 fǒu

痞 pǐ , 嚭 pǐ , 俖, 娝, 桮, 脴, 踎

丕 pī

胚 pēi , 呸 pēi , 坯 pī , 抷, 伾 pī , 柸 pēi , 狉 pī , 秠 pī , 苤 piě , 蚽 pí , 邳 pī , 駓, 噽, 岯, 怌, 豾, 鉟, 髬, 魾

还 Huán , 坏 huài , 杯 bēi , 怀 Huái , 环 Huán , 歪 wāi , 孬 nāo , 甭 béng , 钚 bù , 鈈, 吥 bù , 囨 piān , 妚 pēi , 抔 póu , 紑 fóu , 罘 fú , 芣 fú , 伓, 奀, 嫑 biáo , 炋, 盃 bēi , 肧, 衃, 覔, 銔, 阫, 鴀