小时候

Character by character

• 小xiǎo3 strokesHSK 1small, tiny, insignificant
• 时shí7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 時time, season; era, age, period
• 候hòu10 strokesHSK 1wait; expect; visit; greet

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 小时候. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 小xiǎoHSK 1

  small; tiny; few; young

• 时候shí houHSK 1

  time; length of time; moment; period

• 时shíHSK 3

  o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period

• 时间shí jiānHSK 1

  time; period

• 小时xiǎo shíHSK 1

  hour

• 当时dāng shíHSK 2

  then; at that time; while

• 同时tóng shíHSK 2

  at the same time; simultaneously

• 时代shí dàiHSK 3

  age; era; epoch; period (in one's life)

• 小心xiǎo xīnHSK 2

  to be careful; to take care

• 有时yǒu shíHSK 1

  sometimes; now and then

• 小姐xiǎo jieHSK 1

  young lady; miss; (slang) prostitute

• 小组xiǎo zǔHSK 2

  group

• 时刻shí kèHSK 3

  time; juncture; moment; period of time; constantly; always

• 有时候yǒu shí houHSK 1

  sometimes

• 时尚shí shàngHSK 7

  fashion; fad; fashionable

• 那时nà shíHSK 2

  then; at that time; in those days

• 随时suí shíHSK 2

  at any time; at all times; at the right time; whenever necessary

• 时期shí qīHSK 6

  period; phase

• 暂时zàn shíHSK 5

  temporary; provisional; for the time being

• 及时jí shíHSK 3

  timely; at the right time; promptly; without delay

• 时光shí guāngHSK 5

  time; era; period of time

• 小说xiǎo shuōHSK 2

  novel; fiction

• 平时píng shíHSK 2

  ordinarily; in normal times; in peacetime

• 临时lín shíHSK 4

  as the time draws near; at the last moment; temporary; interim; ad hoc