This is our first really complicated kanji, which can be divided into parts. The left part is a narrower version of 日, which we know as 'day', and the other 'radicals' (parts of the kanji) are 土 (which means 'ground' as a kanji) and 寸 ('measurement'). Note that not all radicals are kanji in their own right.
The complex kanji that results from this, 時, means 'time' or 'hour'. It is the じ (on reading) that we put at the end of はちじ (8 o'clock) and also the とき (kun reading) we use when we say 'when' (literally, 'at the time that') and repeat in ときどき (sometimes).
同時 (どうじ) means 'simultaneous(ly)', 'at the same time'.
日時 (にちじ) means 'date and time'.
一時 (ひととき) means 'moment' or 'time'.
The following 3 are all similar:
時々 or 時時 (ときどき) is 'sometimes' as we saw already
時には (ときには) is 'at times', 'occasionally'
時として (ときとして) is 'in some cases', 'sometimes'
All other compounds I found also convey this sense of 'time' or 'occasion'.
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