I watch TV all day.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一天到晚
all day long; the whole day
IN A VIDEO一天到晚
See this word with its surrounding sentence, pinyin, translation, and timestamp.
DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
all day long; the whole day
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一天到晚 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一天到晚 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
"What do you do all day?" "I eat."
After a long day of looking at a computer, don't you feel tired?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一天到晚.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一天到晚.
Directly before
- 汤姆一天到晚1
- 麽一天到晚1
- 月份一天到晚1
- 他们一天到晚1
- 我一天到晚1
Directly after
- 一天到晚都3
- 一天到晚做1
- 一天到晚对1
- 一天到晚下雨1
- 一天到晚工作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 一天到晚
What does 一天到晚 mean in Chinese?
一天到晚 (yītiāndàowǎn) means all day long; the whole day.
How do you pronounce 一天到晚?
一天到晚 is pronounced yītiāndàowǎn.
Is 一天到晚 an HSK word?
一天到晚 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
SEE IT IN CONTEXT
Upload a videoTurn your own Chinese video into a searchable learning file.
Keep English optional, place pinyin above Hanzi, and export subtitles named after your video.