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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一朝一夕
lit. one morning and one evening (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
lit. one morning and one evening (idiom)
02
fig. in a short period of time
03
overnight
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一朝一夕 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一朝一夕 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一朝一夕.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一朝一夕.
Directly before
- 不是一朝一夕2
Directly after
- 一朝一夕就1
- 一朝一夕的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 一朝一夕
What does 一朝一夕 mean in Chinese?
一朝一夕 (yīzhāoyīxī) means lit. one morning and one evening (idiom).
How do you pronounce 一朝一夕?
一朝一夕 is pronounced yīzhāoyīxī.
Is 一朝一夕 an HSK word?
一朝一夕 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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