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一号

yīhào

first day of the month

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

first day of the month

02

toilet

03

(slang) top (in a homosexual relationship)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 一号 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一号 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我会在七月一号开始上班。wǒ huì zài qī yuè yī hào kāi shǐ shàng bān。

I will start working on July first.

孕妇一般会买大一号的内裤。yùn fù yì bān huì mǎi dà yī hào de nèi kù。

Pregnant women usually buy bigger size panties.

汤姆试过还回泳衣来换成更大一号的,但是员工告诉他那是不被允许的。tāng mǔ shì guò hái huí yǒng yī lái huàn chéng gèng dà yī hào de, dàn shì yuán gōng gào sù tā nà shì bù bèi yǔn xǔ de。

Tom tried to return the swimsuit for a larger size, but the clerk told him that wasn't allowed.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 一号.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一号.

Directly before

  • 七月一号1
  • 更大一号1
  • 大一号1
  • 海盗一号1

Directly after

  • 一号的2
  • 一号开始1
  • 一号与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 一号

What does 一号 mean in Chinese?

一号 (yīhào) means first day of the month.

How do you pronounce 一号?

一号 is pronounced yīhào.

Is 一号 an HSK word?

一号 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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