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平时

píng shí

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 平時

平时 (píng shí) means "ordinarily". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 平时 means

1. ordinarily
2. in normal times
3. in peacetime

The characters in 平时

• 平píngflat; level; smooth; to make even; to level; equal; on the same level
• 时shío'clock; time; when

Example sentences

• 今天比平时还忙。
  Today's even busier than normal.
• 你平时做些什幺？
  What do you do normally?
• 我爸跟平时一样忙着。
  My father is as busy as ever.
• 今天他比平时起得早。
  He woke up earlier than usual today.
• 我在周末起床比平时晚。
  Wǒ zài zhōumò qǐchuáng bǐ píngshí wǎn.
  On weekends I got up later than usual.
• 汤姆平时不那样穿衣服。
  Tom doesn't usually dress like that.

Words starting with 平时

• 平时不烧香，临时抱佛脚píng shí bù shāo xiāng , lín shí bào fó jiǎo(lit.) to never burn incense when all's well, but clutch Buddha's feet in a crisis…

Sounds the same

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

• 平实simple and unadorned; plain; (of land) level

Where 平时 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Time adverbs & temporal expressions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read píng shí correctly.
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