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时刻

shí kè

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 時刻 Measure word 个、段

时刻 (shí kè) means "moment". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 时刻 means

1. time
2. juncture
3. moment
4. period of time
5. constantly
6. always

The characters in 时刻

• 时shío'clock; time; when
• 刻kèquarter (hour); moment; to carve

Example sentences

• 这是一个伟大的时刻。
  This is a great moment.
• 我可以有张公车的时刻表吗？
  Wǒ kěyǐ yǒu zhāng gōngchē de shíkèbiǎo ma?
  May I have a bus schedule?
• 地震时时刻刻都有可能发生。
  Earthquakes may occur at any moment.
• 我们的方案在最后的时刻失败了。
  Wǒmen de fāng'àn zài zuì hòu de shíkè shībài le.
  Our plans fell through at the last minute.
• 这个时刻，分队办公室里电话响了。
  Zhège shíkè, fēnduì bàngōngshì lǐ diànhuà xiǎng le.
  At that moment, the telephone in the unit office rang.
• 太空竞赛是历史上激动人心的时刻。
  The space race was an exciting time in history.

Words starting with 时刻

• 时刻表shí kè biǎotimetable; schedule
• 时刻准备shí kè zhǔn bèiready at any moment

Words containing 时刻

• 高光时刻gāo guāng shí kèhighlight; glorious moment

Sounds the same

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

• 食客diner (in a restaurant etc); hanger-on; sponger
• 石刻stone inscription; carved stone
• 蚀刻to etch; engraving
• 十克decagram

Where 时刻 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Time Periods & Schedules (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 shí kè correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.