Traditional: 小時候
小时候 (xiǎo shí hou) means “in one's childhood”. It is an HSK 2 Chinese word (traditional 小時候) in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Practice each character:
小时候我住在农村。
Xiǎoshíhou wǒ zhù zài nóngcūn.
When I was a child, I lived in the countryside.
Updated: 2026-07-18