You have to wait a while.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一阵子
a while
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
a while
02
a spell
03
a short time
04
a burst
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一阵子 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一阵子 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I've had my eye on you for a while.
I don't think this rain will let up anytime soon.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一阵子.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一阵子.
Directly before
- 好一阵子2
- 下一阵子1
- 走一阵子1
- 你一阵子1
Directly after
- 一阵子没1
- 一阵子没吃过1
- 一阵子了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 一阵子
What does 一阵子 mean in Chinese?
一阵子 (yīzhènzi) means a while.
How do you pronounce 一阵子?
一阵子 is pronounced yīzhènzi.
Is 一阵子 an HSK word?
一阵子 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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