当时
dāng shí 1–2
then; at that time; while
- Characters
- 2
- 当 · 时
- Syllables
- 2
- dāng shí
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 505
Part of speech: t
Character by character
- 当dāng6 strokesHSK 2 traditional 噹bear, accept, undertake; just
- 时shí7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 時time, season; era, age, period
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 当时. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 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
- 当dāngHSK 2
to be; to act as; manage; withstand; when; during; ought; should; match equally; equal; same; obstruct; just at (a time or place); on the spot; right; just at
- 小时xiǎo shíHSK 1
hour
- 当然dāng ránHSK 3
only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt
- 同时tóng shíHSK 2
at the same time; simultaneously
- 相当xiāng dāngHSK 3
equivalent to; appropriate; considerably; to a certain extent; fairly; quite
- 时代shí dàiHSK 3
age; era; epoch; period (in one's life)
- 有时yǒu shíHSK 1
sometimes; now and then
- 当地dāng dìHSK 3
local
- 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
- 当中dāng zhōngHSK 3
among; in the middle; in the center
- 时光shí guāngHSK 5
time; era; period of time
- 平时píng shíHSK 2
ordinarily; in normal times; in peacetime
- 当初dāng chūHSK 3
at that time; originally
- 当年dāng niánHSK 5
in those days; then; in those years; during that time