The music carried me back to my childhood.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
儿时
childhood
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
childhood
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 儿时 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 儿时 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Yumiko married a childhood friend last June.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 儿时.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 儿时.
Directly before
- 我儿时2
- 实现儿时1
- 一个儿时1
- 那种儿时1
Directly after
- 儿时的4
- 儿时尝过1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 儿时
What does 儿时 mean in Chinese?
儿时 (érshí) means childhood.
How do you pronounce 儿时?
儿时 is pronounced érshí.
Is 儿时 an HSK word?
儿时 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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