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小时候

xiǎo shí hou

HSK 3.0 level 2 3-character word Traditional 小時候

小时候 (xiǎo shí hou) means "when (I was) little; in childhood". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 小时候 means

1. in one's childhood

The characters in 小时候

• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few
• 时shío'clock; time; when
• 候hòuto wait; to inquire after; to watch

Example sentences

• 我小时候发水痘。
  Wǒ xiǎoshíhou fā shuǐdòu.
  I had chicken pox when I was a kid.
• 我小时候只穿裤子。
  When I was little, I would only wear pants.
• 我小时候很会游泳。
  I swam very well when I was a child.
• 我小时候经常生病。
  I was often ill as a child.
• 他小时候喜爱游泳。
  As a child, he loved to swim.

Words starting with 小时候

• 小时候儿xiǎo shí hou rerhua variant of 小时候

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