暂时
zhànshí · HSK 5
temporarily
⏳ 暂时 = 暂 (brief/temporary) + 时 (time)
暂 means brief or momentary, 时 means time or hour. Together: a brief stretch of time, i.e. temporarily. 暂 also appears in 暂停 (pause) and 短暂 (short-lived).
暂 — 斩 (zhǎn, phonetic) + 日 (sun/day, semantic)
暂 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The bottom 日 (sun/day) supplies the meaning, since the word concerns time, while the top 斩 (zhǎn, 'to cut') gives the sound. The original sense was a brief, cut-off span of time, which became today's meaning of 'temporarily' or 'for a short while.'
时 — sun 日 + temple/measure 寺
Originally a phono-semantic compound: 日 (sun) gives the meaning of time or season, while 寺 (shí) supplies the sound. Early forms used 之 as the phonetic before 寺 replaced it. The core sense 'season, time, hour' has stayed stable since ancient Chinese.