For a moment there, I thought he had gone mad.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一时间
for a moment
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
for a moment
02
momentarily
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一时间 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一时间 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Suddenly unable to make up her mind, she didn't know what to do.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一时间.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一时间.
Directly before
- 她一时间1
Directly after
- 一时间我1
- 一时间拿不定1
- 一时间恍若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 一时间
What does 一时间 mean in Chinese?
一时间 (yīshíjiān) means for a moment.
How do you pronounce 一时间?
一时间 is pronounced yīshíjiān.
Is 一时间 an HSK word?
一时间 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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