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小时候 (xiǎo shí hou): meaning and stroke order

小时候 (xiǎo shí hou) means in one's childhood.

小时候

Simplified
小时候
Traditional
小時候
Pinyin
xiǎo shí hou

Stroke order of 小时候

小

  • xiǎo small; tiny
  • 3 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

候

  • hòu to wait; to inquire after
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 小时候

  1. xiǎo shí hou Traditional 小時候
    • in one's childhood

Radicals of the characters

小
Radical 小 (Kangxi radical 42) · 3 strokes
时
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 7 strokes · 日 on the left, 寸 on the right
候
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 10 strokes

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.

小时候 in our stories

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  • 他一遍又一遍地跟她讲自己的女儿：女儿小时候怕打雷，一打雷就钻进他的被子里，他就唱一首自己编的歌哄她睡觉。

    tā yí biàn yòu yí biàn de gēn tā jiǎng zìjǐ de nǚ'ér nǚ'ér xiǎoshíhou pà dǎléi yì dǎléi jiù zuān jìn tā de bèizi lǐ tā jiù chàng yì shǒu zìjǐ biān de gē hǒng tā shuìjiào

    Again and again he told her about his daughter: as a little girl she was afraid of thunder, and whenever it thundered she crawled under his quilt, and he would sing a song he had made up to lull her to sleep.

    From the story The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • “四十年了。我儿子出生那年种的。他小时候最爱爬这棵树，每年摘柿子，都是他爬上去摘。”

    sìshí nián le wǒ érzi chūshēng nà nián zhòng de tā xiǎoshíhou zuì ài pá zhè kē shù měi nián zhāi shìzi dōu shì tā pá shàngqu zhāi

    "Forty years. I planted it the year my son was born. As a boy he loved climbing it; every year when we picked the persimmons, he was the one who climbed up."

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

Stories using 小时候

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).