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平时 píng shí ordinarily / in normal times / in peacetime
随时 suí shí at any time; at all times / at the right time; whenever necessary
现代 xiàn dài modern times / modern age / modern era
从来 cóng lái always / at all times / never (if used in negative sentence)
古代 dài ancient times
武术 shù military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL:種|种[zhong3]
多次 duō many times / repeatedly
bèi (two, three etc) -fold / times (multiplier) / double / to increase or multiply
近代 jìn dài the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949)
次数 shù number of times / frequency / order number (in a series) / power (math.) / degree of a polynomial (math.)
ái to suffer; to endure / to pull through (hard times) / to delay; to stall; to play for time; to dawdle
fān (bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian / classifier for processes or actions that take time and effort / (classifier) a kind; a sort / (classifier) (used after the verb 翻[fan1] to indicate how many times a quantity doubles, as in 翻一番[fan1 yi1 fan1] "to double")
tàng classifier for times, round trips or rows / a time / a trip
传承 chuán chéng to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance
古人 rén people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person
人次 rén person-times / visits / classifier for number of people participating
古今中外 jīn zhōng wài at all times and in all places (idiom)
苦力 bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times
翻番 fān fān to double / to increase by a certain number of times
与时俱进 shí jìn abreast of modern developments / to keep up with the times / progressive / timely
制服 zhì to subdue / to check / to bring under control / (in former times) what one is allowed to wear depending on social status / uniform (army, party, school etc) / livery (for company employees) / CL:套[tao4]
江南 Jiāng nán south of Changjiang or Yangtze river / south of the lower reaches of Changjiang / often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces / a province during Qing times / in literature, refers to the sunny south / Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)
旧日 jiù former times / olden days
江湖 jiāng rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3xia2]) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
上古 shàng the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times


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