CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

一二

yīèr

one or two; a few

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

one or two; a few

a little; just a bit

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 一二 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一二 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我对化学略懂一二。wǒ duì huà xué lüè dǒng yī èr。

I have some acquaintance with chemistry.

一个人如果条件很好，有一百分，可是这一百分之中，他只给你三四十分，或一二十分；相反地，另一个人也许只有七八十分，可是他却是全心全意的对待你，那你应该选择那一个？yí gè rén rú guǒ tiáo jiàn hěn hǎo， yǒu yì bǎi fēn， kě shì zhè yì bǎi fēn zhī zhōng， tā zhǐ gěi nǐ sān sì shí fēn， huò yī èr shí fēn； xiāng fǎn dì， lìng yí gè rén yě xǔ zhǐ yǒu qī bā shí fēn， kě shì tā què shì quán xīn quán yì de duì dài nǐ， nà nǐ yīng gāi xuǎn zé nà yí gè？

If one person's qualities are really good, say this means they have one hundred points, but of those hundred they only give you thirty or forty, or even ten or twenty. Inversely, another person maybe only has seventy or eighty points, but they treat you with their heart and soul, then which person should you choose?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 一二.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一二.

Directly before

略懂一二1
或一二1

Directly after

一二十分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 一二

What does 一二 mean in Chinese?

一二 (yīèr) means one or two; a few.

How do you pronounce 一二?

一二 is pronounced yīèr.

Is 一二 an HSK word?

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

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