It was love at first sight.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一见钟情
to fall in love at first sight (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to fall in love at first sight (idiom)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一见钟情 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一见钟情 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
She attracted me at first sight.
He fell in love with her at first sight.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一见钟情.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一见钟情.
Directly before
- 她一见钟情3
- 是一见钟情1
- 是不是一见钟情1
- 查尔斯一见钟情1
- 玛丽一见钟情1
Directly after
- 一见钟情了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 一见钟情
What does 一见钟情 mean in Chinese?
一见钟情 (yījiànzhōngqíng) means to fall in love at first sight (idiom).
How do you pronounce 一见钟情?
一见钟情 is pronounced yījiànzhōngqíng.
Is 一见钟情 an HSK word?
一见钟情 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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