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同时

tóng shí

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 同時

同时 (tóng shí) means "at the same time". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 同时 means

1. at the same time; simultaneously

The characters in 同时

• 同tónglike; same; similar
• 时shío'clock; time; when

Example sentences

• 大家别同时说。
  Don't all speak at the same time.
• 我们同时到的。
  We arrived at the same time.
• 别同时做两样事。
  Bié tóngshí zuò liǎng yàng shì.
  Don't do two things at once.
• 他们同时到了巴黎。
  They arrived in Paris at the same time.
• 我每天工作不同时段。
  Wǒ měi tiān gōngzuò bùtóng shíduàn.
  Every day I work different hours.
• 所有的灯光同时灭了。
  All at the same time, the lights went out.

Words starting with 同时

• 同时期tóng shí qīat the same time; contemporary
• 同时代tóng shí dàicontemporary

Words containing 同时

• 与此同时yǔ cǐ tóng shíat the same time; meanwhile

Where 同时 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Equality, Balance & Average (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tóng shí correctly.
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