四时
sì shí
Pinyin

Definition

四时
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sì shí
  1. the four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

四
sì
  1. 1 four
  2. 2 4
十四
shí sì
  1. 1 fourteen
  2. 2 14
四分之一
sì fēn zhī yī
  1. 1 one-quarter
四十
sì shí
  1. 1 forty
  2. 2 40
四周
sì zhōu
  1. 1 all around
四季
sì jì
  1. 1 four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬
四射
sì shè
  1. 1 to radiate all around
四川
Sì chuān
  1. 1 Sichuan province (Szechuan) in southwest China, abbr. 川 or 蜀, capital Chengdu 成都
四川省
Sì chuān Shěng
  1. 1 Sichuan province (Szechuan) in southwest China, abbr. 川[Chuān] or 蜀[Shǔ], capital Chengdu 成都[Chéng dū]
四月
Sì yuè
  1. 1 April
  2. 2 fourth month (of the lunar year)
四处
sì chù
  1. 1 all over the place
  2. 2 everywhere and all directions
四起
sì qǐ
  1. 1 to spring up everywhere
  2. 2 from all around
大四
dà sì
  1. 1 fourth-year university student
新四军
Xīn sì jūn
  1. 1 New Fourth army of Republic of China, set up in 1937 and controlled by the communists
星期四
Xīng qī sì
  1. 1 Thursday
周四
Zhōu sì
  1. 1 Thursday
三从四德
sān cóng sì dé
  1. 1 Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功
三朋四友
sān péng sì yǒu
  1. 1 friends
  2. 2 cronies
不三不四
bù sān bù sì
  1. 1 dubious
  2. 2 shady
  3. 3 neither one thing nor the other
  4. 4 neither fish nor fowl
  5. 5 nondescript
丢三落四
diū sān là sì
  1. 1 forgetful
  2. 2 empty-headed

Idioms (20)

传播四方
chuán bō sì fāng
  1. 1 to disseminate in every direction (idiom)
危机四伏
wēi jī sì fú
  1. 1 danger lurks on every side (idiom)
名扬四海
míng yáng sì hǎi
  1. 1 to become known far and wide (idiom)
  2. 2 famous
四世同堂
sì shì tóng táng
  1. 1 four generations under one roof (idiom)
四仰八叉
sì yǎng bā chā
  1. 1 sprawled out on one's back (idiom)
四两拨千斤
sì liǎng bō qiān jīn
  1. 1 lit. four ounces can move a thousand catties (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to achieve much with little effort
四分五裂
sì fēn wǔ liè
  1. 1 all split up and in pieces (idiom); disunity (in an organization)
  2. 2 complete lack of unity
  3. 3 to disintegrate
  4. 4 falling apart
  5. 5 to be at sixes and sevens
四大皆空
sì dà jiē kōng
  1. 1 lit. the four elements are vanity (idiom)
  2. 2 this world is an illusion
四平八稳
sì píng bā wěn
  1. 1 everything steady and stable (idiom); overcautious and unimaginary
四海升平
sì hǎi shēng píng
  1. 1 lit. all four oceans are peaceful
  2. 2 worldwide peace (idiom)
四海为家
sì hǎi wéi jiā
  1. 1 to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom)
  2. 2 to feel at home anywhere
  3. 3 to roam about unconstrained
  4. 4 to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own
四海皆准
sì hǎi jiē zhǔn
  1. 1 appropriate to any place and any time (idiom); universally applicable
  2. 2 a panacea
四海飘零
sì hǎi piāo líng
  1. 1 drifting aimlessly all over the place (idiom)
四脚朝天
sì jiǎo cháo tiān
  1. 1 four legs facing the sky (idiom); flat on one's back
四通八达
sì tōng bā dá
  1. 1 roads open in all directions (idiom); accessible from all sides
四面楚歌
sì miàn Chǔ gē
  1. 1 lit. on all sides, the songs of Chu (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. surrounded by enemies, isolated and without help
四体不勤，五谷不分
sì tǐ bù qín , wǔ gǔ bù fēn
  1. 1 never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite
家徒四壁
jiā tú sì bì
  1. 1 lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. very poor
  3. 3 wretched
巴三览四
bā sān lǎn sì
  1. 1 to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently
张三李四
Zhāng sān Lǐ sì
  1. 1 Zhang the Third and Li the Fourth (idiom)
  2. 2 Tom, Dick and Harry

Sample Sentences

不错，想要身心健康，就得顺应天地自然的规律，“饮食有节，起居有常，不妄劳作”。尽量做到“和于阴阳，调于四时”。
bùcuò ，xiǎngyào shēnxīn jiànkāng ，jiù děi shùnyìng tiāndì zìrán de guīlǜ ，“yǐnshí yǒu jié ，qǐjū yǒu cháng ，bùwàngláozuò ”。jǐnliàng zuò dào “héyú yīnyáng ，tiáo yú sìshí ”。
Good. If you want to look after your physical and mental health, you need to respect natural laws encaptured in the phrase, "food and drink should change in line with the changing seasons, life should follow a natural rhythm, and you should behave in an upright way." As much as possible get in sync with yin and yang, and adjust to the four seasons.
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