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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

一世

yīshì

generation

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

generation

02

period of 30 years

03

one's whole lifetime

04

lifelong

05

age

06

era

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 一世 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一世 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

女王伊丽莎白一世於1603年去世。nǚ wáng yī lì shā bái yī shì yú 1603 nián qù shì。

Queen Elizabeth I passed away in 1603.

我重生了,重生到了我妹妹和我老公联合害死我的时候,这一世,我要……wǒ chóng shēng le, chóng shēng dào le wǒ mèi mèi hé wǒ lǎo gōng lián hé hài sǐ wǒ de shí hòu, zhè yī shì, wǒ yào……

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 一世.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一世.

Directly before

  • 伊丽莎白一世1
  • 这一世1

Directly after

  • 一世於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 一世

What does 一世 mean in Chinese?

一世 (yīshì) means generation.

How do you pronounce 一世?

一世 is pronounced yīshì.

Is 一世 an HSK word?

一世 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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