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当时

dāng shí 1–2

then; at that time; while

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 2
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.

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