| Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 一世 | 一世 | yīshì | - generation - period of 30 years - one's whole lifetime - lifelong - age - era - times - the whole world - the First (of numbered European kings) |
| 倍 | 倍 | bèi | - (two, three etc) -fold - times (multiplier) - double - to increase or multiply |
| 昔 | 昔 | xī | - former times - the past - Taiwan pr. [xi2] |
| 曩 | 曩 | nǎng | - in former times |
| 筝 | 箏 | zhēng | - guzheng or long zither - long zither with 13 to 16 strings, developed from guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times - Japanese koto |
| 三次 | 三次 | sāncì | - third - three times - (math.) degree three, cubic (equation) |
| 上古 | 上古 | shànggǔ | - the distant past - ancient times - antiquity - early historical times |
| 乱世 | 亂世 | luànshì | - the world in chaos - troubled times - (in Buddhism) the mortal world |
| 五帝 | 五帝 | wǔdì | - Five Emperors from legendary times - possibly tribal leaders before the historiographers got working on them - usually taken to be Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4] and four of his sons Zhuan Xu 顓頊|颛顼[Zhuan1 Xu1], Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4], Tang Yao 唐堯|唐尧[Tang2 Yao2], Yu Shun 虞舜[Yu2 Shun4] |
| 传世 | 傳世 | chuánshì | - handed down from ancient times - family heirloom |
| 古人 | 古人 | gǔrén | - people from ancient times - the ancients - the late (i.e. person who has passed away) |
| 古代 | 古代 | gǔdài | - ancient times - olden times |
| 古来 | 古來 | gǔlái | - since ancient times - it has ever been the case that - see also 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2] |
| 古早 | 古早 | gǔzǎo | - (Taiwan) old times - former times |
| 古昔 | 古昔 | gǔxī | - (literary) ancient times - in olden days |
| 古筝 | 古箏 | gǔzhēng | - zither or guzheng - large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] during Tang and Song times |
| 四次 | 四次 | sìcì | - fourth - four times - quartic |
| 夙夜 | 夙夜 | sùyè | - morning and night - always - at all times |
| 夙日 | 夙日 | sùrì | - at ordinary times |
| 多次 | 多次 | duōcì | - many times - repeatedly |
| 奢香 | 奢香 | ShēXiāng | - She Xiang (c. 1361-1396), lady who served as Yi ethnic group leader in Yunnan in early Ming times |
| 宝鸡 | 寶雞 | Bǎojī | - Baoji prefecture level city in Shaanxi - called Chencang 陳倉|陈仓[Chen2 cang1] in ancient times |
| 昆曲 | 崑曲 | Kūnqǔ | - Kunqu opera, influential musical theater originating in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in Yuan times |
| 巡抚 | 巡撫 | xúnfǔ | - inspector-general of province in Ming and Qing times |
| 平时 | 平時 | píngshí | - ordinarily - in normal times - in peacetime |
| 几次 | 幾次 | jǐcì | - several times |
| 往初 | 往初 | wǎngchū | - (literary) former times - in olden days |
| 往古 | 往古 | wǎnggǔ | - in former times - in olden days |
| 往时 | 往時 | wǎngshí | - past events - former times |
| 往迹 | 往跡 | wǎngjì | - past events - former times |
| 从来 | 從來 | cónglái | - always - at all times - never (if used in negative sentence) |
| 应景 | 應景 | yìngjǐng | - according with the times - seasonal |
| 叙旧 | 敘舊 | xùjiù | - to reminisce - to talk about former times |
| 朝服 | 朝服 | cháofú | - court dress in former times |
| 次数 | 次數 | cìshù | - frequency - number of times - ordinal number |
| 江南 | 江南 | Jiāngnán | - south of Changjiang or Yangtze river - south of the lower reaches of Changjiang - often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces - a province during Qing times - in literature, refers to the sunny south - Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea) |
| 江湖 | 江湖 | Jiānghú | - rivers and lakes - around the whole country - cf 两江 and 两湖, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan provinces in Qing times - vagrant - itinerant (esp. entertainer, swindler, quack doctor etc) |
| 洛阳 | 洛陽 | Luòyáng | - Luoyang prefecture level city in Henan, an old capital from pre-Han times |
| 浊世 | 濁世 | zhuóshì | - the world in chaos - troubled times - the mortal world (Buddhism) |
| 现代 | 現代 | xiàndài | - modern times - modern age - modern era |
| 百倍 | 百倍 | bǎibèi | - a hundredfold - a hundred times |
| 皇古 | 皇古 | huánggǔ | - ancient times |
| 皇朝 | 皇朝 | huángcháo | - the imperial court - the government in imperial times |
| 翻番 | 翻番 | fānfān | - to double - to increase by a certain number of times |
| 圣神 | 聖神 | Shèngshén | - feudal term of praise for ruler, king or emperor - general term for saint in former times - term for God during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 太平天國|太平天国 - Holy Spirit (in Christian Trinity) |
| 自古 | 自古 | zìgǔ | - (since) ancient times - (from) time immemorial |
| 旧制 | 舊制 | jiùzhì | - old system - weights and measures of former times |
| 旧恶 | 舊惡 | jiùè | - old wrong - past grievance - wickedness of former times |
| 旧日 | 舊日 | jiùrì | - former times - olden days |
| 旧时 | 舊時 | jiùshí | - in former times - the olden days |
| 旧闻 | 舊聞 | jiùwén | - old anecdote - stories passed on from former times |
| 苦力 | 苦力 | kǔlì | - bitter work - hard toil - (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times |
| 道学 | 道學 | dàoxué | - Confucian study of ethics - study of Daoism - school for Daoism in Tang and Song times - Daoist magic - another name for 理學|理学, rational learning of Song dynasty neo-Confucianism |
| 远古 | 遠古 | yuǎngǔ | - antiquity - ancient times |
| 随时 | 隨時 | suíshí | - at any time - at all times - at the right time |
| 两下子 | 兩下子 | liǎngxiàzi | - a couple of times - to repeat the same - the same old trick - tricks of the trade |
| 古时候 | 古時候 | gǔshíhou | - in ancient times - in olden days |
| 同甘苦 | 同甘苦 | tónggānkǔ | - to share joys and sorrows - sharing good times and hard times - same as 同甘共苦 |
| 宝鸡市 | 寶雞市 | BǎojīShì | - Baoji prefecture level city in Shaanxi - called Chencang 陳倉|陈仓[Chen2 cang1] in ancient times |
| 应景儿 | 應景兒 | yìngjǐngr | - according with the times - seasonal |
| 正仓院 | 正倉院 | Zhēngcāngyuàn | - Shōsō-in, treasure house belonging to Tōdai-ji 東大寺, Nara 奈良, Japan, an extensive repository of imperial treasures from Tang times - described as the east-most end of the Silk road |
| 洛阳市 | 洛陽市 | Luòyángshì | - Luoyang prefecture level city in Henan, an old capital from pre-Han times |
| 总次数 | 總次數 | zǒngcìshù | - total number of times |
| 旧时代 | 舊時代 | jiùshídài | - former times - the olden days |
| 苦日子 | 苦日子 | kǔrìzi | - hard times |
| 三顾茅庐 | 三顧茅廬 | sāngùmáolú | - lit. three humble visits to a thatched cottage - cf famous episode in the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 in which Liu Bei 劉備|刘备 recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮 (the Hidden Dragon 臥龍|卧龙) to his cause by visiting him three times |
| 不入时宜 | 不入時宜 | bùrùshíyí | - untimely - premature - inopportune - ill-timed - out of fashion - behind the times |
| 不合时宜 | 不合時宜 | bùhéshíyí | - untimely - premature - inopportune - ill-timed - out of fashion - behind the times |
| 不止一次 | 不止一次 | bùzhǐyīcì | - many times - on more than one occasion |
| 亘古未有 | 亙古未有 | gèngǔwèiyǒu | - unprecedented - never seen since ancient times |
| 印度时报 | 印度時報 | YìndùShíbào | - India Times |
| 古往今来 | 古往今來 | gǔwǎngjīnlái | - since ancient times - since times immemorial |
| 多事之秋 | 多事之秋 | duōshìzhīqiū | - troubled times - eventful period |
| 富国强兵 | 富國強兵 | fùguóqiángbīng | - lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times - Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei) |
| 封建时代 | 封建時代 | fēngjiànshídài | - feudal times |
| 昏天黑地 | 昏天黑地 | hūntiānhēidì | - lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) - fig. pitch dark - to black out - disorderly - troubled times |
| 时代广场 | 時代廣場 | ShídàiGuǎngchǎng | - Times Square |
| 时时刻刻 | 時時刻刻 | shíshíkèkè | - at all times |
| 有的时候 | 有的時候 | yǒudeshíhòu | - sometimes - at times |
| 岁月峥嵘 | 歲月崢嶸 | suìyuèzhēngróng | - eventful years - momentous times |
| 每时每刻 | 每時每刻 | měishíměikè | - at all times - at every moment |
| 泰晤士报 | 泰晤士報 | TàiwùshìBào | - Times (newspaper) |
| 海峡时报 | 海峽時報 | HǎixiáShíbào | - The Straits Times |
| 用餐时间 | 用餐時間 | yòngcānshíjiān | - meal times |
| 白香词谱 | 白香詞譜 | Báixiāngcípǔ | - Anthology of ci poems tunes (1795), edited by Xu Menglan 舒夢蘭|舒梦兰, with 100 accessible poems from Tang through to Qing times |
| 百听不厌 | 百聽不厭 | bǎitīngbùyàn | - worth hearing a hundred times |
| 自古以来 | 自古以來 | zìgǔyǐlái | - since ancient times |
| 与时俱进 | 與時俱進 | yǔshíjūjìn | - abreast of modern developments - to keep up with the times - progressive - timely |
| 与时消息 | 與時消息 | yǔshíxiāoxi | - variable with the times - transient - impermanent |
| 船政大臣 | 船政大臣 | ChuánzhèngDàchén | - Minister of Navy during Qing times |
| 达噜噶齐 | 達嚕噶齊 | dálūgáqí | - Mongolian daruqachi, local commander in Mongol and Yuan times |
| 达鲁花赤 | 達魯花赤 | dálǔhuāchì | - Mongolian daruqachi, local commander in Mongol and Yuan times |
| 金融时报 | 金融時報 | JīnróngShíbào | - Financial Times |
| 随时待命 | 隨時待命 | suíshídàimìng | - on call - always available - ready at all times |
| 韦编三绝 | 韋編三絕 | wéibiānsānjué | - lit. the leather binding (of the bamboo scroll) has broken three times - fig. to study diligently |
| 风起潮涌 | 風起潮湧 | fēngqǐcháoyǒng | - lit. wind rises, tide bubbles up - turbulent times - violent development (idiom) |
| 风起云涌 | 風起雲湧 | fēngqǐyúnyǒng | - lit. rising winds, scudding clouds (idiom); turbulent times - violent development |
| 风雨同舟 | 風雨同舟 | fēngyǔtóngzhōu | - lit. in the same boat under wind and rain (idiom); fig. to stick together in hard times |
| 洛杉矶时报 | 洛杉磯時報 | LuòshānjīShíbào | - Los Angeles Times |
| 彼一时此一时 | 彼一時此一時 | bǐyīshícǐyīshí | - that was one thing, and this is another - times have changed |
| 日本经济新闻 | 日本經濟新聞 | RìběnJīngjìXīnwén | - Nikkei Shimbun, Japanese equivalent of Financial Times |
| 新官上任三把火 | 新官上任三把火 | xīnguānshàngrènsānbǎhuǒ | - the new boss cracks the whip three times - a new broom sweeps clean - fig. vigorous new policies |
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