She recognized him immediately.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一下子
in a short while
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
in a short while
02
all at once
03
all of a sudden
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一下子 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一下子 appears in 12 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He went quiet suddenly.
A fool's bolt is soon shot.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一下子.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一下子.
Directly before
- 天气一下子1
- 可以一下子1
- 蠢人一下子1
- 说法一下子1
- 少女一下子1
Directly after
- 一下子就8
- 一下子暖和1
- 一下子之间1
- 一下子哭1
- 一下子冲进1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 一下子
What does 一下子 mean in Chinese?
一下子 (yīxiàzi) means in a short while.
How do you pronounce 一下子?
一下子 is pronounced yīxiàzi.
Is 一下子 an HSK word?
一下子 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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