Example sentences
nǐ你shén什me么shí时hòu候zǒu走？
When are you leaving?
xiǎo小shí时hòu候wǒ我zhù住zhè这ér儿。
I lived here as a kid.
The story behind the character
时
The traditional 時 is 日 (sun) plus 寺 (sound). No clocks back then, so you read the sun to tell the time. That's why 时 has 日 in it. Where the sun sits is what time it is.
候
亻 (person) plus 矦 (sound). It meant to watch for, to wait. A person standing there waiting, that's 候.