Date: November 12th, 2005
Cate: Chinese Word of the Day
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– Chen2 – Period, Time

Finally 小時 – Xiao3 Shi2 – Small Hour – Hour makes sense! It’s because the actual unit, 時辰 – Shi2 Chen2 – Hour Period was (not in use any more) two hours long. So one hour is just a “small hour”. See Wikipedia for the entire table of obsolete units of Chinese time.

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