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有时

yǒu shí 3–2

sometimes; now and then

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
有 · 时
Syllables
2
yǒu shí
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,568

Part of speech: d

Character by character

  • 有yǒu6 strokesHSK 1have, own, possess; exist
  • 时shí7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 時time, season; era, age, period

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

Example sentences

  • 我有时间。

    Wǒ yǒu shí jiān

    I have time.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

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

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