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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

一口

yīkǒu

readily

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

readily

02

flatly (deny, admit and so on)

03

a mouthful

04

a bite

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 一口 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一口 appears in 34 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我可以吃一口吗?wǒ kě yǐ chī yī kǒu ma?

Can I have a bite?

他嘴里一口方言。tā zuǐ lǐ yī kǒu fāng yán。

He speaks in a dialect.

她一口干完了整杯。tā yī kǒu gàn wán le zhěng bēi。

She drank straight from the bottle.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 一口.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一口.

Directly before

  • 了一口7
  • 说一口4
  • 讲一口3
  • 尝一口3
  • 吃一口2

Directly after

  • 一口流利9
  • 一口吗3
  • 一口咖啡3
  • 一口地道2
  • 一口果汁2
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 一口

What does 一口 mean in Chinese?

一口 (yīkǒu) means readily.

How do you pronounce 一口?

一口 is pronounced yīkǒu.

Is 一口 an HSK word?

一口 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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