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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
计时
to measure time
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to measure time
02
to time
03
to reckon by time
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 计时 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 计时 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The custom of eating dumplings on New Year's Eve is related to an ancient Chinese method of measuring time; in ancient China, each day was divided into twelve sections: the beginning of each day was called 'first time', which corresponds to the period from 11pm to 1am.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 计时.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 计时.
Directly before
- 的计时1
- 停车计时1
Directly after
- 计时法1
- 计时收费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 计时
What does 计时 mean in Chinese?
计时 (jìshí) means to measure time.
How do you pronounce 计时?
计时 is pronounced jìshí.
Is 计时 an HSK word?
计时 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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