平时 píngshí▶ usualmente

Stroke order

平时 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 平 — 5 strokes
• 时 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. ordinarily
2. in normal times
3. in peacetime

Example sentences

• 我平时六点起床。Wǒ píngshí liù diǎn qǐchuáng.In ordinary times I get up at six.
• 他平时很少看电视。Tā píngshí hěn shǎo kàn diànshì.He ordinarily watches very little television.

Related words

• 准时a tiempo
• 及时oportuno
• 同时mientras tanto
• 当时en ese momento
• 按时a tiempo
• 暂时temporal

平时 is pronounced píngshí and means “usualmente”. It belongs to the HSK 4 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 平时 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.