当 dāng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- ⺌ — small
- Made of
- ⺌ small 彐 snout
当时
dāngshí
at that time
Characters in this word
时 shí
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 日 — sun
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 当时我很小。 Dāng shí wǒ hěn xiǎo. I was very small then.
- 当时他在家。 Dāng shí tā zài jiā. He was at home then.
- 当时天很冷。 Dāng shí tiān hěn lěng. It was very cold then.
Related words
- 当 dāng to work as; to be
- 当初 dāngchū at first; back then
- 当地 dāngdì local
- 当然 dāngrán of course
- 当中 dāngzhōng among; in the middle of
- 相当 xiāngdāng quite; fairly
- 应当 yīngdāng should; ought to
- 不敢当 bùgǎndāng I do not deserve it (modest reply)
- 当场 dāngchǎng on the spot; immediately
- 当代 dāngdài modern; contemporary
- 当年 dāngnián back then
- 当前 dāngqián current; present