No. 457 in Chinese
小时
Hour.
In a sentence
我每天早上五点起床，跑一个小时。
I wake up at five every morning and run for an hour.
Here, '小时' is used to indicate a duration of time—one hour.
他花了两个小时完成了这个报告。
He spent two hours completing this report.
'小时' is used to specify the amount of time spent on an activity.
每小时都有火车从这个站开出。
A train leaves this station every hour.
In this sentence, '小时' denotes a recurring interval of time—every hour.
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