This is an exception to the rule.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一个
a; an; one
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
a; an; one
02
the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一个 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一个 appears in 2559 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I have a large family.
I saw a girl with long hair.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一个.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一个.
Directly before
- 是一个368
- 了一个316
- 有一个195
- 的一个106
- 我一个94
Directly after
- 一个人205
- 一个好68
- 一个小时43
- 一个朋友41
- 一个很41
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 一个
What does 一个 mean in Chinese?
一个 (yīge) means a; an; one.
How do you pronounce 一个?
一个 is pronounced yīge.
Is 一个 an HSK word?
一个 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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