He carried six boxes at a time.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一次
first
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
first
02
first time
03
once
04
(math.) linear (of degree one)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一次 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一次 appears in 231 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
She takes piano lessons once a week.
The whole class is present once a week.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一次.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一次.
Directly before
- 最后一次22
- 了一次10
- 来一次8
- 再说一次8
- 他一次7
Directly after
- 一次机会9
- 一次吗5
- 一次澡3
- 一次在3
- 一次了3
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 一次
What does 一次 mean in Chinese?
一次 (yīcì) means first.
How do you pronounce 一次?
一次 is pronounced yīcì.
Is 一次 an HSK word?
一次 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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