小时 (xiǎoshí) means Hour. Below are 24 of the 44 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
我每天学习两个 小时 。
Wǒ měi tiān xuéxí liǎng gè xiǎoshí.
I study for two hours every day.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 小时
从我家到公司要一个 小时 。
Cóng wǒ jiā dào gōngsī yào yí gè xiǎoshí.
It takes an hour from my home to the office.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 小时
他 小时 候想当医生。
Tā xiǎo shíhou xiǎng dāng yīshēng.
When he was small he wanted to be a doctor.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 当
他 小时 候家里很穷。
Tā xiǎo shíhou jiā lǐ hěn qióng.
His family was poor when he was small.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 穷
他 小时 候特别淘气。
Tā xiǎo shíhou tèbié táoqì.
He was especially mischievous as a child.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 淘气
他 小时 候有点自卑。
Tā xiǎoshíhou yǒudiǎn zìbēi.
He felt somewhat inferior as a child.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 自卑
我每天运动一个 小时 。
Wǒ měi tiān yùndòng yí gè xiǎoshí.
I exercise for an hour every day.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 运动
会议大约开一个 小时 。
Huìyì dàyuē kāi yí ge xiǎoshí.
The meeting lasts about an hour.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 大约
他回忆起 小时 候的事。
Tā huíyì qǐ xiǎo shíhou de shì.
He recalled things from his childhood.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 回忆
讨论进行了两个 小时 。
Tǎolùn jìnxíng le liǎng ge xiǎoshí.
The discussion lasted two hours.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 讨论
我每天阅读半个 小时 。
Wǒ měi tiān yuèdú bàn ge xiǎoshí.
I read for half an hour every day.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 阅读
小时 候他有很多幻想。
Xiǎo shíhou tā yǒu hěn duō huànxiǎng.
He had many fantasies as a child.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 幻想
小时 候的记忆很美好。
Xiǎo shíhou de jìyì hěn měihǎo.
Childhood memories are lovely.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 记忆
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From the graded readers
四个 小时 以后，火车到了上海。
sì gè xiǎoshí yǐhòu, huǒchē dàole shànghǎi.
Four hours later the train arrived in Shanghai.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · The Train to Shanghai
两个 小时 以后，我又打了一次。
liǎng gè xiǎoshí yǐhòu, wǒ yòu dǎle yīcì.
Two hours later I tried again.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
小白喜欢睡觉，一天睡很多个 小时 。
xiǎo bái xǐhuan shuìjiào, yī tiān shuì hěnduō gè xiǎoshí.
Xiaobai likes sleeping — he sleeps a lot of hours a day.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Cat
我们坐了五个 小时 的车才到那座山。
wǒmen zuò le / liǎo / liào wǔ gè xiǎoshí de / dì chē cái dào nà / nèi zuò shān.
It took five hours by coach to reach the mountain.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Trip With Friends
我七点就起床了，跑了半个 小时 步。
wǒ qī diǎn jiù qǐchuáng le / liǎo / liào, pǎo le / liǎo / liào bànge xiǎoshí bù.
I got up at seven and ran for half an hour.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend
我 小时 候上的那所小学已经不在了。
wǒ xiǎoshíhou shàng de / dì nà / nèi suǒ xiǎoxué yǐjīng bùzài le / liǎo / liào.
The primary school I went to as a child was gone.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Going Back Home
我坐在地上看了两个 小时 ，什么都没扔。
wǒ zuò zài dìshàng kànle liǎng gè xiǎoshí, shénme dōu méi rēng.
I sat on the floor and looked through them for two hours, and threw nothing out.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
车站里人非常多，我等了半个 小时 才买到票。
chēzhàn lǐ rén fēicháng duō, wǒ děng le / liǎo / liào bànge xiǎoshí cái mǎi dào piào.
The station was packed; I queued half an hour before I got a ticket.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · The Train to Shanghai
医院里等的人非常多，我们等了一个多 小时 。
yīyuàn lǐ děng de / dì rén fēicháng duō, wǒmen děng le / liǎo / liào yīgè duō xiǎoshí.
There were a lot of people waiting; we waited over an hour.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Going to the Doctor
上山的路很长，我们走了三个 小时 ，非常累。
shàngshān de / dì lù hěn cháng / zhǎng, wǒmen zǒule sān gè xiǎoshí, fēicháng lèi / léi / lěi.
The path up was long; we walked three hours and were exhausted.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Trip With Friends
我停了大概三秒钟——那三秒钟对我来说像三个 小时 。
wǒ tíng le / liǎo / liào dàgài sān miǎo zhōng—— nà / nèi sān miǎo zhōng duì wǒ láishuō xiàng sān gè xiǎoshí.
I stopped for about three seconds — three seconds that felt like three hours to me.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
小时 appears in 44 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Questions about 小时
How is 小时 used in a sentence?
This page shows 44 sentences using 小时 (xiǎoshí, "Hour"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 小时 an HSK word?
Yes — 小时 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 小时?
The dictionary page for 小时 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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