CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

只见

zhǐjiàn

to see (the same thing) over and over again

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to see (the same thing) over and over again

to see, to one's surprise, (sth happen suddenly)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 只见 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 只见 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我至此只见过他一次。wǒ zhì cǐ zhǐ jiàn guò tā yī cì。

I've met him only once so far.

事物皆有两面。笃信者只见其一。shì wù jiē yǒu liǎng miàn。 dǔ xìn zhě zhǐ jiàn qí yī。

Everything has two sides. Fanatics only see one.

我们突然向下望去，只见一个杯状的洼地，上面点缀著矮小的橡树和被多年风暴肆虐扭曲变形的蕨类植物。两座高耸狭窄的塔楼耸立在树梢之上。车夫用鞭子指著前方。他说：「巴斯克维尔庄园。」wǒ men tū rán xiàng xià wàng qù， zhǐ jiàn yí gè bēi zhuàng de wā dì， shàng miàn diǎn zhuì zhù ǎi xiǎo de xiàng shù hé bèi duō nián fēng bào sì nüè niǔ qū biàn xíng de jué lèi zhí wù。 liǎng zuò gāo sǒng xiá zhǎi de tǎ lóu sǒng lì zài shù shāo zhī shàng。 chē fū yòng biān zi zhǐ zhù qián fāng。 tā shuō：「bā sī kè wéi ěr zhuāng yuán。」

Suddenly we looked down into a cup-like depression, patched with stunted oaks and furs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm. Two high, narrow towers rose over the trees. The driver pointed with his whip. “Baskerville Hall,” said he.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 只见.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 只见.

Directly before

我只见1
者只见1
至此只见1

Directly after

只见过2
只见其一1
只见一个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 只见

What does 只见 mean in Chinese?

只见 (zhǐjiàn) means to see (the same thing) over and over again.

How do you pronounce 只见?

只见 is pronounced zhǐjiàn.

Is 只见 an HSK word?

只见 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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