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Mythic Mandarin

平时 (píng shí): meaning and stroke order

平时 (píng shí) means ordinarily, in normal times, in peacetime.

平时

Simplified
平时
Traditional
平時
Pinyin
píng shí

Stroke order of 平时

平

  • Píng surname Ping
  • píng flat; level
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

时

  • shí old variant of 時|时[shi2]
  • Shí surname Shi
  • shí o'clock; time
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 旹

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 平时

  1. píng shí Traditional 平時
    • ordinarily
    • in normal times
    • in peacetime

Radicals of the characters

平
Radical 干 (Kangxi radical 51) · 5 strokes · built from 干 and 丷
时
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 7 strokes · 日 on the left, 寸 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

平时 in our stories

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  • 她犹豫了很久，还是下了楼。那天，平时点头之交的邻居们一边扫落叶，一边聊天，有人端来了咖啡和华夫饼。

    tā yóuyù le hěn jiǔ háishi xià le lóu nà tiān píngshí diǎntóu zhī jiāo de línjū men yìbiān sǎo luòyè yìbiān liáotiān yǒurén duānlái le kāfēi hé huáfūbǐng

    She hesitated for a long time but went down anyway. That day, neighbours who normally just nodded to each other chatted as they swept leaves, and someone brought out coffee and waffles.

    From the story Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 平时

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).