时候 — stroke order
Learn how to write 时候 (shíhou), which means “time”. It is written with 2 characters and 17 strokes in total. In traditional Chinese it is written 時候. Each character below is animated in the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap any character to replay it, or use “Play all strokes” to watch the whole word written in order.
Character by character
| Character | Pinyin | 注音 | Meaning | Strokes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 时 | shí | ㄕˊ | time, season | 7 |
| 候 | hou | ㄏㄡ˙ | to wait, to expect | 10 |