I met him on the previous day.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
前一天
the day before (an event)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
the day before (an event)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 前一天 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 前一天 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I had lost a camera the previous day.
The day before, they had made preparations.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 前一天.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 前一天.
Directly before
- 我前一天3
- 把前一天2
- 在前一天1
- 他前一天1
- 他们前一天1
Directly after
- 前一天丢2
- 前一天遇见1
- 前一天买1
- 前一天遇到1
- 前一天才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 前一天
What does 前一天 mean in Chinese?
前一天 (qiányītiān) means the day before (an event).
How do you pronounce 前一天?
前一天 is pronounced qiányītiān.
Is 前一天 an HSK word?
前一天 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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