時務

Chinese

		o'clock; time; when o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period	affair; business; matter
trad. (時務)		時	務
simp. (时务)		时	务

Pronunciation

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• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shíwù

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si⁴ mou⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shíwù
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shíhwù
    • Wade–Giles: shih²-wu⁴
    • Yale: shŕ-wù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyrwuh
    • Palladius: шиу (šiu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ u⁵¹/
    • Homophones:
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si⁴ mou⁶
    • Yale: sìh mouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si⁴ mou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi⁴ mou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː²¹ mou̯²²/

Noun

時務

1. current affairs; current situation;
2. trend of the times; zeitgeist

   • 今之所謂識時務者見人之讀聖書守舊儀者，輒以爲不合時宜，而非斥之。此輩心中只一「時」字作祟。故時乎倭，則是急乎事倭，時乎洋，則又急乎從洋。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]

     From: 1946, letter by ​Kim Yeong'ik (金永益)

     Geum ji sowi sik simu ja gyeon in ji dok seongseo su guui ja, cheop iwi bulhap siui, i bicheok ji. Cha bae simjung ji il "si" ja jak su. Go si ho Wae, jeuk si geup ho sa Wae; si ho Yang, jeuk u geup ho jong Yang. [Sino-Korean]

     When these people of today who are supposedly knowledgeable about the trends of these times see those who read the books of the Sages and keep to the customs of old, they always believe that they are going against what is appropriate for these times, and upbraid them. The single word "[these] times" causes perversion in the minds of these fellows. Therefore, when the times were on the side of the Japanese, they hastened to serve the Japanese; the times being on the side of the Westerners, they now hasten to submit to the Westerners.

3. (Zhao'an Hakka) time; moment

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		時候
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	時候兒, 工夫兒
	Taiwan	時候
	Malaysia	時候
	Singapore	時候
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	時候
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	時候兒
	Wanrong	時候
	Xi'an	時候, 時間
	Xining	時候
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	時候, 時候兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	時節
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	時候
	Wuhan	時辰, 時候
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	時候
	Hefei	時候
Cantonese	Guangzhou	時候
	Hong Kong	時候
	Yangjiang	時候
	Singapore (Guangfu)	時候
Gan	Nanchang	時間, 時候, 場中
	Pingxiang	時會
Hakka	Meixian	時候
	Changting	時節
	Liancheng	時節
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	時節
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	時節
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	時節
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	時節
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	時節
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	時務
Huizhou	Jixi	時候
Jin	Taiyuan	時候
Northern Min	Jian'ou	時候
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	辰候, 時候
	Fuzhou (Changle)	辰候
	Fuqing	時辰
	Yongtai	辰候
	Gutian	辰候
	Fu'an	辰候
	Ningde	流桓
	Shouning	辰候
	Zhouning	辰候
	Fuding	辰候
Southern Min	Xiamen	時陣, 時節
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	時陣
	Quanzhou	時陣
	Jinjiang	時節, 時陣
	Shishi	時陣
	Anxi	時陣
	Yongchun	時節, 時陣
	Zhangzhou	時陣
	Zhangzhou (Longhai)	時陣
	Zhangzhou (Changtai)	時陣
	Zhao'an	時陣
	Taipei	時陣
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	時陣
	Kaohsiung	時陣
	Yilan	時陣, 當時
	Changhua (Lukang)	時陣
	Taichung	時陣
	Taichung (Wuqi)	時陣
	Tainan	時陣
	Taitung	時陣
	Hsinchu	時陣
	Kinmen	時陣
	Penghu (Magong)	時陣
	Singapore (Hokkien)	時陣
	Manila (Hokkien)	時陣, 時節
	Chaozhou	時陣, 時候
	Shantou	時候
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	時候
	Jieyang	時陣
	Singapore (Teochew)	時候
	Wenchang	時候
	Qionghai	時候
	Singapore (Hainanese)	時候
Puxian Min	Putian	時節, 時頭
	Xianyou	時節
Wu	Shanghai	辰光
	Shanghai (Chongming)	辰光
	Suzhou	辰光
	Danyang	時候, 辰光
	Hangzhou	辰光
	Hangzhou (Yuhang)	辰光
	Ningbo	辰光, 時節 rare, 時候 dated
	Wenzhou	時節
	Jinhua	時節
Xiang	Changsha	時候
	Loudi	時界, 時界唧, 時際
	Shuangfeng	時候, 時基, 時家

Dialectal synonyms of 時候 (“time”) [map]