时候 shíhou HSK1 moment Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 时候 (時候) shíhou moment noun a specific point in time or the time when something happens 他回来的时候,天已经黑了。 tā huílai de shíhou, tiān yǐjīng hēi le. By the time he returned, it was already dark. duration noun a length or period of time 他等了许久,过了好些时候才见到她。 tā děng le xǔjiǔ, guò le hǎo xiē shíhou cái jiàndào tā. He waited a long time, and it was quite a while before he saw her. Frequency Movie subtitles 1555.3 per million appears in 98% of films Written text 684.5 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 1 HSK 3.0 Level 1 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
时候 (時候) shíhou moment noun a specific point in time or the time when something happens 他回来的时候,天已经黑了。 tā huílai de shíhou, tiān yǐjīng hēi le. By the time he returned, it was already dark. duration noun a length or period of time 他等了许久,过了好些时候才见到她。 tā děng le xǔjiǔ, guò le hǎo xiē shíhou cái jiàndào tā. He waited a long time, and it was quite a while before he saw her. Frequency Movie subtitles 1555.3 per million appears in 98% of films Written text 684.5 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 1 HSK 3.0 Level 1 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)