時

surname · Han script

Meaning, in Chinese: season

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

時 is a surname written in the Han script, most frequently recorded in Taiwan.

rarermore common
  • TWTaiwan
  • HKHong Kong
  • JPJapan

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

time

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

How 時 is read(measured from records)

時 is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Chinese86%

    season

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Japanese14%

    time

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Japanese

    sometimes, once in a while, on occasion

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Japanese

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

時 is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Korean, Hanja form of 시 (“time; hour; season”).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Vietnamese, chữ Hán form of thì (“time”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ojp, a time, moment (in time), occasion

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name 時 come from?
time Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese.
What does the name 時 mean?
In Chinese, season
In which country does 時 have the most bearers?
時 is most frequently recorded in Taiwan.

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About this data

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “時”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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