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时刻

shí kè 2–4

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

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
时 · 刻
Syllables
2
shí kè
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,705

Part of speech: n,d

Character by character

  • 时shí7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 時time, season; era, age, period
  • 刻kè8 strokesHSK 2carve, engrave; quarter hour

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 时刻. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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