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Mythic Mandarin

同时 (tóng shí): meaning and stroke order

同时 (tóng shí) means at the same time; simultaneously.

同时

Simplified
同时
Traditional
同時
Pinyin
tóng shí

Stroke order of 同时

同

  • tóng like; same
  • tòng used in 胡同[hu2 tong4]
  • tòng used in 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 衕

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 同时

  1. tóng shí Traditional 同時
    • at the same time; simultaneously

Radicals of the characters

同
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 6 strokes · built from 冂 and 𠮛
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.

同时 in our stories

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  • 社区调解室的门一开，两个人同时挤了进来，谁也不看谁。

    shèqū tiáojiěshì de mén yì kāi liǎng gè rén tóngshí jǐ le jìnlai shéi yě bú kàn shéi

    The door of the community mediation room opened and two people squeezed in at the same moment, neither looking at the other.

    From the story The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 同时

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).