Learn a character a day with Mandarin Blueprint right here at Shanghaiist! 时- shí- time,when, timely The left semantic component in 时 is the Sun 日, which makes perfect sense when considering the Sun’s instrumental role in our determination of time. First, let’s look at the three most common words 时 is used in: ▷小时 (xiǎo)- hour “Hey, Xiao Wang, what should we call an hour?” “Hmm, I don’t know, how about just ‘small (小)…