She came here as soon as she heard it.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一来
firstly
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
firstly
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一来 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一来 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
We will begin the match when he comes.
As soon as I came I washed the dishes, so how come you ask me to leave?!
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一来.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一来.
Directly before
- 她一来1
- 我一来1
- 他一来1
- 南风一来1
Directly after
- 一来是1
- 一来这里1
- 一来可以1
- 一来就1
- 一来我们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 一来
What does 一来 mean in Chinese?
一来 (yīlái) means firstly.
How do you pronounce 一来?
一来 is pronounced yīlái.
Is 一来 an HSK word?
一来 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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