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一方面

yīfāngmiàn

on the one hand

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

on the one hand

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 一方面 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一方面 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

一方面我们虽然蒙受了损失,但另一方面我们从这次经验中学到了很多。yì fāng miàn wǒ men suī rán méng shòu le sǔn shī, dàn lìng yì fāng miàn wǒ men cóng zhè cì jīng yàn zhōng xué dào le hěn duō。

On the one hand we suffered a heavy loss, but on the other hand we learned a great deal from the experience.

我打电话给你,一方面是想请你吃饭,另一方面是想告诉你我儿子要结婚了。wǒ dǎ diàn huà gěi nǐ, yì fāng miàn shì xiǎng qǐng nǐ chī fàn, lìng yì fāng miàn shì xiǎng gào sù nǐ wǒ ér zi yào jié hūn le。

On the one hand I called you to invite you to dinner, on the other to tell you my son is getting married.

一方面他想拥有所有,另一发面他又不愿付出。yì fāng miàn tā xiǎng yōng yǒu suǒ yǒu, lìng yī fā miàn tā yòu bù yuàn fù chū。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 一方面.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一方面.

Directly before

  • 上海一方面1
  • 你一方面1

Directly after

  • 一方面是2
  • 一方面拆掉1
  • 一方面开辟1
  • 一方面他1
  • 一方面我们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 一方面

What does 一方面 mean in Chinese?

一方面 (yīfāngmiàn) means on the one hand.

How do you pronounce 一方面?

一方面 is pronounced yīfāngmiàn.

Is 一方面 an HSK word?

一方面 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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