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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

独当一面

dúdāngyīmiàn

to assume personal responsibility (idiom); to take charge of a section

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to assume personal responsibility (idiom); to take charge of a section

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 独当一面 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 独当一面 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我能独当一面。wǒ néng dú dāng yī miàn。

I can manage on my own.

他从小跟著木工师傅学手艺,如今已能独当一面。tā cóng xiǎo gēn zhù mù gōng shī fù xué shǒu yì, rú jīn yǐ néng dú dāng yī miàn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 独当一面.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 独当一面.

Directly before

  • 我能独当一面1
  • 已能独当一面1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 独当一面

What does 独当一面 mean in Chinese?

独当一面 (dúdāngyīmiàn) means to assume personal responsibility (idiom); to take charge of a section.

How do you pronounce 独当一面?

独当一面 is pronounced dúdāngyīmiàn.

Is 独当一面 an HSK word?

独当一面 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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