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At that time in Chinese

at that time · HSK 4

当时 dāng shí

  1. 当 dāng to act as
  2. 时 shí time

当时我还在上大学。 At that time I was still in college.

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How do you say at that time in Chinese?

At that time in Chinese is 当时 (dāng shí). You can also say 一时 (yī shí).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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