通勤时间

通勤時間

tōngqínshíjiān

noun

Meanings

1 commute time
2 time spent commuting to and from work

Characters

work / diligent

Examples

我单程通勤时间就要一个半小时。

Wǒ dānchéng tōngqín shíjiān jiù yào yí ge bàn xiǎoshí.

My one-way commute takes an hour and a half.

通勤时间太长会严重拉低幸福感。

Tōngqín shíjiān tài cháng huì yánzhòng lā dī xìngfú gǎn.

A long commute seriously drags down your sense of well-being.

Tips

culture

In Beijing/Shanghai, the 2022 urban-planning report pegged the average one-way commute at ~45 minutes; anything under 30 is 幸福通勤 (happy commute), anything over 60 is 极端通勤 (extreme commute). 通勤 itself is a Japanese loan that entered Chinese via early-20th-century translation.

Stroke Order

通 tōng

勤 qín

时 shí

间 jiān