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小时

xiǎo shí

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word Traditional 小時 Measure word 个

小时 (xiǎo shí) means "hour". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 小时 means

1. hour

The characters in 小时

• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few
• 时shío'clock; time; when

Example sentences

• 他讲了一小时。
  He spoke for one hour.
• 她睡了几小时。
  She slept for a few hours.
• 五小时过去了。
  Five hours passed.
• 我小时候发水痘。
  Wǒ xiǎoshíhou fā shuǐdòu.
  I had chicken pox when I was a kid.
• 他一小时前走了。
  He left an hour ago.
• 下了三小时大雨。
  It has been raining heavily for three hours.

Words starting with 小时

• 小时候xiǎo shí houin one's childhood
• 小时工xiǎo shí gōnghourly worker; hourly job
• 小时了了，大未必佳xiǎo shí liǎo liǎo , dà wèi bì jiābeing bright at an early age does not necessarily bring success upon growing up (proverb)
• 小时候儿xiǎo shí hou rerhua variant of 小时候

Words containing 小时

• 数小时shù xiǎo shíseveral hours
• 学分小时xué fēn xiǎo shícredit hour (in an academic credit system); see also 学分制
• 安培小时ān péi xiǎo shíampere-hour (Ah)
• 半小时bàn xiǎo shíhalf an hour; 30 minutes
• 八小时工作制bā xiǎo shí gōng zuò zhìeight-hour workday system

Sounds the same

Read xiǎo shí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 小食snack; nibbles

Where 小时 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Time Expressions (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiǎo shí correctly.
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