时候

時候traditional

HSK 1#107 by frequencyradical 日

shí hou["n"]

time; length of time; moment; period

Examples

什么时候？

When?

什么时候开始？

What time does it start?

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.