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time / length of time / moment / period
HSK 1
(concept of) time / (duration of) time / (point in) time
HSK 1
age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
time / juncture / moment / period of time / CL: 個|个, / constantly / always
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *时* | 时* | *时
old variant of 時|时
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *时* | 时* | *时
o'clock / time / when / hour / season / period
HSK 3
opportunity; opportune moment
HSK 5
time / era / period of time
HSK 5
current trends; the present situation; how things are going
HSK 5
often; frequently
HSK 5
period / phase / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
fashion / fashionable clothes
HSK 6
often / constantly
HSK 6
occasionally; from time to time
HSK 6
season; time
HSK 6
fashion / fad / fashionable
HSK 7-9
time and place / world of a particular locale and era / (physics) space-time
HSK 7-9
from time to time
HSK 7-9
speed per hour
HSK 7-9
in vogue / fashionable
HSK 7-9
separated in time (usu. followed by a quantity of time)
HSK 7-9
schedule / timetable
HSK 7-9
sometimes good, sometimes bad
HSK 7-9
time interval / work shift / time slot / the twelve two-hour divisions of the day
HSK 7-9
Time, US weekly news magazine
fashion show
clock
timing (of a signal or sequence) / time course
Time Warner Inc., US media company
time zone
hand of a clock / hour hand
"Times" (newspaper, e.g. New York Times)
point of time (in time-based systems)
time / one of the 12 two-hour periods of the day
current politics / political situation of the time
time / period during the day / one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支
at present / right now
time limit
(verb) tense
circumstances / fate
contemporary expectations
time difference / time lag / jet lag
things change with the passage of time (idiom)
current situation / circumstances / current trend
current political situation
stopping and starting / intermittent / sporadic / on and off
regional folk song popular during a certain period of time
season
time / auspicious time / time and date / long period of time / this day
the time comes, fortune turns (idiom); to have a lucky break / things change for the better
duration
fate is unfavorable (idiom); the omens are not good
Time that has passed will never come back. (idiom)
appearing and disappearing (idiom) / intermittently visible
ills of the day / contemporary problems
current price
then (as in "the then chairman")
hourly wage
prevalent custom of the time
seasonal vegetables
timestamp
(electronics) delay; latency
fashionable style / (linguistics) tense
timeline
concord / harmony
timetable / schedule
(idiom) up to the present / even now / now (in contrast with the past) / at this late hour
seasonal vegetable
time travel
to rent by the hour
time axis / timeline
peace all year round (old letter closing)
timestamp
Times Square
sensitivity to timing / time-sensitive / timeliness
Time makes the man (idiom). The trend of events brings forth the hero.
time series (stats.)
time travel
time is limited (idiom)
fashion show
time travel
time interval
shidaiqu, a musical genre that originated in Shanghai in the 1920s, a fusion of Chinese folk music and Western jazz
heard from time to time / one keeps hearing that...
ready at any moment
time machine
dress shoes
the time has not yet come
"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
at all times
Horologium (constellation)
lit. time is a butcher's knife / fig. time marches on, relentless and unforgiving / nothing gold can stay
time capsule
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *时* | 时* | *时
surname Shi
(idiom) time and tide wait for no man
bad times, adverse fate (idiom)
timetable / schedule
sometimes big, sometimes small / varying
to write for a bit then give up / to write in fits and starts
timeliness / period of viability or validity / (law) prescription; limitation / (metallurgy) aging

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