Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation 
Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
小
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
时
These are the forms of 時, the traditional character: 时 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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一天有二十四个小时。
A day has twenty-four hours.
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事故耽误了我们半小时。
An accident delayed us for half an hour.
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今天下午我有两个小时的英语课和两个小时的汉语课。
This afternoon I have English class for two hours and then two hours of Chinese.
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从苏黎世到波士顿坐飞机要八个小时，但是返回时只要六个。
It takes eight hours to fly from Zurich to Boston, but only six for the return trip.
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从这里坐车，要花两个小时才能到我叔叔家。
It's a two-hour drive from here to my uncle's house.
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他一小时前走了。
He left an hour ago.
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他们每天必须工作8小时。
They must work 8 hours a day.
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他们谈计划谈了几个小时。
They talked over the plan for hours.