Can you stay for a while?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一会
a moment
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
a moment
02
a while
03
in a moment
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一会 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一会 appears in 24 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
We'll talk later.
He stood there for a while.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一会.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一会.
Directly before
- 了一会8
- 休息一会2
- 待一会2
- 睡一会1
- 整晚一会1
Directly after
- 一会下雨1
- 一会停雨1
- 一会然后1
- 一会没1
- 一会吧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 一会
What does 一会 mean in Chinese?
一会 (yīhuì) means a moment.
How do you pronounce 一会?
一会 is pronounced yīhuì.
Is 一会 an HSK word?
一会 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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