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有时

yǒu shí

HSK 3.0 level 2 2-character word Traditional 有時

有时 (yǒu shí) means "sometimes (shorter form)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 有时 means

1. sometimes; now and then

The characters in 有时

• 有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意
• 时shío'clock; time; when

Example sentences

• 我有时间。
  I have time.
• 有时间表吗？
  Yǒu shíjiān biǎo ma?
  Is there a timetable?

Words starting with 有时

• 有时候yǒu shí housometimes

Sounds the same

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

• 酉时5-7 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)

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