Kill two birds with one stone.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一箭双雕
lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom)
02
to kill two birds with one stone
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一箭双雕 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一箭双雕 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
That way I kill two birds with one stone.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一箭双雕.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一箭双雕.
Directly before
- 我一箭双雕1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 一箭双雕
What does 一箭双雕 mean in Chinese?
一箭双雕 (yījiànshuāngdiāo) means lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom).
How do you pronounce 一箭双雕?
一箭双雕 is pronounced yījiànshuāngdiāo.
Is 一箭双雕 an HSK word?
一箭双雕 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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