Little by little, the bird made his nest.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一点一点
little by little
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
little by little
02
bit by bit
03
gradually
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一点一点 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一点一点 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He is getting better bit by bit.
The news spread little by little.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一点一点.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一点一点.
Directly before
- 消息一点一点1
- 他一点一点1
- 日语一点一点1
- 鸟一点一点1
- 还是一点一点1
Directly after
- 一点一点地3
- 一点一点地变1
- 一点一点地尝1
- 一点一点开始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 一点一点
What does 一点一点 mean in Chinese?
一点一点 (yīdiǎnyīdiǎn) means little by little.
How do you pronounce 一点一点?
一点一点 is pronounced yīdiǎnyīdiǎn.
Is 一点一点 an HSK word?
一点一点 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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