时候

Pinyin: shí hòu

time; moment

Example sentence

你什么时候回家?

Nǐ shénme shíhòu huí jiā?

When do you go home?

What 时候 means

时候 (shí hòu) is a Chinese word meaning “time; moment”. It belongs to the Time topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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