平时 píngshí▶ thường, thông thường

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đúng giờ
• 及时kịp thời
• 同时trong khi đó
• 当时vào thời điểm đó
• 按时đúng giờ
• 暂时tạm thời

平时 is pronounced píngshí and means “thường, thông thường”. 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.