I heard a strange sound.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一声
first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一声 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一声 appears in 24 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The door clicked shut.
Tom heard a shout.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一声.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一声.
Directly before
- 了一声5
- 说一声5
- 我一声4
- 的一声2
- 听到一声2
Directly after
- 一声喊叫2
- 一声倒1
- 一声一笑置之1
- 一声关上1
- 一声我们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 一声
What does 一声 mean in Chinese?
一声 (yīshēng) means first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone).
How do you pronounce 一声?
一声 is pronounced yīshēng.
Is 一声 an HSK word?
一声 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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