CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

一方

yīfāng

a party (in a contract or legal case)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

a party (in a contract or legal case)

one side

area

region

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 一方 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一方 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

事故双方的说法相差太大，当局难以判断哪一方说的是实话。shì gù shuāng fāng de shuō fǎ xiāng chà tài dà， dāng jú nán yǐ pàn duàn nǎ yī fāng shuō de shì shí huà。

The discrepancy between the stories of the two parties involved in the accident was so great that the authorities had a hard time deciding which side was telling the truth.

所谓美，其本身并无质的内在。而仅是存在于观察某一对象一方的精神中，每个人精神上对美的感受有所不同。suǒ wèi měi， qí běn shēn bìng wú zhì dì nèi zài。 ér jǐn shì cún zài yú guān chá mǒu yī duì xiàng yī fāng de jīng shén zhōng， měi gè rén jīng shén shàng duì měi de gǎn shòu yǒu suǒ bù tóng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 一方.

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

Directly before

对象一方1
哪一方1

Directly after

一方的1
一方说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

What does 一方 mean in Chinese?

一方 (yīfāng) means a party (in a contract or legal case).

How do you pronounce 一方?

一方 is pronounced yīfāng.

Is 一方 an HSK word?

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

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