三時

三時

1. spring, summer and autumn ^UK / fall ^US (the farming seasons)

   • 三時告災，上有憂色，構巧詞以悅之。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     三时告灾，上有忧色，构巧词以悦之。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 989, 王禹偁 (Wang Yucheng),《待漏院記》

     Sānshí gào zāi, shàng yǒu yōusè, gòu qiǎo cí yǐ yuè zhī. [Pinyin]

     Natural calamities in the three farming seasons are reported and the emperor looks unhappy. I shall invent something to please him.

2. (literary) morning, midday and evening; time during which people are normally awake

   • 殺氣三時作陣雲，寒聲一夜傳刁斗。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     杀气三时作阵云，寒声一夜传刁斗。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 738, 高適 (Gao Shi),《燕歌行》, translated by Wang Yushu

     Shāqì sānshí zuò zhènyún, hán shēng yīyè chuán diāodǒu. [Pinyin]

     All day long, circumstance threatening death o’erhung like cloud;
     All night long, rang the copper vessel with trembling sound loud.

3. (Buddhism) the three epochs: 正法 (zhèngfǎ, “the age of legitimacy”) , 像法 (xiàngfǎ, “the age of imitation”) and 末法 (mòfǎ, “the age of decadence”)

• Ding, Fubao (丁福保) (1922), “三時” in 佛學大辭典 [A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms].

From 三(さん) (san, “three”) + 時(じ) (ji, “o'clock”).

• (Tokyo) さんじ [sáꜜǹjì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [sã̠ɲ̟d͡ʑi]

三(さん)時(じ) • (san-ji) 

1. three o'clock

• 三(さん)時(じ)のお八(や)つ (sanji no oyatsu, “afternoon refreshment; afternoon tea”)
• 御(お)三(さん)時(じ) (osanji, “three-o'clock snack”)