Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
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
候
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 6 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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“你什么时候回来？”“这都要看天气。”
"When will you come back?" "It all depends on the weather."
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23点我打电话给她的时候，她已经去睡觉了。
She had already gone to bed when I phoned her at 11:00 p.m.
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Mick等待约会的时候靠读杂志打发时间。
Mick killed time by reading a magazine while waiting for his date.
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一个入室盗窃者趁我去旅游的时候闯入了我家。
A burglar broke into my house while I was away on a trip.
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上次我见到她的时候，她看上去挺好的。
She looked well when I last saw her.
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不在祖国的时候我很想家，但是在家的时候我又想旅游。
When I'm away from home, I miss it dearly, but when I am at home, I want to travel.
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不知道他什么时候才回来。
I don't know when he'll come back.
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世界末日是什么时候？
When will the world come to an end?