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时期

shí qī

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 時期 Measure word 个

时期 (shí qī) means "period". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 时期 means

1. period
2. phase

The characters in 时期

• 时shío'clock; time; when
• 期qīa period of time; phase; stage

Example sentences

• 那是困难时期。
  Those were difficult times.

Words containing 时期

• 同时期tóng shí qīat the same time; contemporary
• 日治时期Rì zhì shí qīthe period of Japanese rule
• 过渡时期guò dù shí qītransition period
• 历史时期lì shǐ shí qīhistorical period
• 冰河时期bīng hé shí qīice age
• 极盛时期jí shèng shí qīmost flourishing period; Golden Age
• 鼎盛时期dǐng shèng shí qīflourishing period; golden age

Sounds the same

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

• 十七seventeen; 17

Where 时期 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 qī correctly.
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