Days in Chinese
days · HSK 6
时光
- 时 time
- 光 light
Counted with 段: 一段时光
大学时光过得真快。 College days really flew by.
Other ways to say days
More words with 时 or 光
How do you say days in Chinese?
Days in Chinese is 时光 (shí guāng). You can also say 日子 (rì zi).
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?
Our own 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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