It happened in the blink of an eye.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一眨眼
in a wink
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
in a wink
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一眨眼 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一眨眼 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The firefighters put out the fire in the blink of an eye.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一眨眼.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一眨眼.
Directly before
- 是一眨眼1
- 在一眨眼1
- 要是一眨眼1
- 消防员一眨眼1
Directly after
- 一眨眼的2
- 一眨眼间1
- 一眨眼之间1
- 一眨眼孩子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 一眨眼
What does 一眨眼 mean in Chinese?
一眨眼 (yīzhǎyǎn) means in a wink.
How do you pronounce 一眨眼?
一眨眼 is pronounced yīzhǎyǎn.
Is 一眨眼 an HSK word?
一眨眼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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