He left in the blink of an eye.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一转眼
in the blink of an eye
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
in the blink of an eye
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一转眼 actually appears in real sentences.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一转眼.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一转眼.
Directly before
- 他一转眼1
Directly after
- 一转眼就2
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 一转眼
What does 一转眼 mean in Chinese?
一转眼 (yīzhuǎnyǎn) means in the blink of an eye.
How do you pronounce 一转眼?
一转眼 is pronounced yīzhuǎnyǎn.
Is 一转眼 an HSK word?
一转眼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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