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shí
1. ten
2. 10
HSK 1 Very Common • Top 1% ✏️ 2 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

Example Sentences (6)

有零下十度吧?
Yǒu língxià shí dù ba?
It's around minus ten degrees, right?
Text 3
现在十点十分。
Xiàn zài shí diǎn shí fēn.
It is 10:10 now.
Text 1
十年过去了,现在他已经是校长了,因为太忙,每天早上我起床后都看不到他,晚上很晚他才回到家。
shí nián guòqù le, xiànzài tā yǐjīng shì xiàozhǎng le, yīnwèi tài máng, měitiān zǎoshang wǒ qǐchuáng hòu dōu kàn bú dào tā, wǎnshang hěn wǎn tā cái huídào jiā.
Ten years have passed. Now he is already the principal. Because he’s so busy, every morning after I get up I can’t see him, and he doesn’t get home until very late at night.
Text 4
我十一岁的时候开始踢足球,已经踢了十年了。
Wǒ shíyī suì de shíhòu kāishǐ tī zúqiú, yǐjīng tī le shí nián le.
I started playing soccer when I was eleven years old, and I have been playing for ten years.
Text 3
我睡得也早,我每天晚上十点就睡觉。早睡早起身体好。
wǒ shuì de yě zǎo, wǒ měi tiān wǎnshang shí diǎn jiù shuì jiào. zǎo shuì zǎo qǐ shēntǐ hǎo.
I also go to bed early. I go to bed at ten every night. Going to bed early and getting up early is good for your health.
Text 1
而且他的脾气也不错,结婚快十年了,我们俩几乎没因为什么事红过脸,很多人都特别羡慕我们。
érqiě tā de píqi yě búcuò, jiéhūn kuài shí nián le, wǒmen liǎ jīhū méi yīnwèi shénme shì hóng guò liǎn, hěn duō rén dōu tèbié xiànmù wǒmen.
And he has a good temper, too; we’ve been married almost ten years, the two of us have hardly ever argued about anything, and many people really envy us.
Text 5

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
1
Character Frequency Rank
111
Word Frequency Rank
1,072 of 84,292
Radical Number
24