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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

立马

lìmǎ

at once

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

at once

02

immediately

03

promptly

04

swiftly

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 立马 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 立马 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

你最好立马去睡觉。nǐ zuì hǎo lì mǎ qù shuì jiào。

You'd better go to bed at once.

我要是有钱,立马就买这台电脑。wǒ yào shì yǒu qián, lì mǎ jiù mǎi zhè tái diàn nǎo。

If I had the money, I would immediately acquire this computer.

就算是吃了药,也不会立马见效的。jiù suàn shì chī le yào, yě bú huì lì mǎ jiàn xiào de。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 立马.

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

Directly before

  • 最好立马1
  • 之后立马1
  • 不会立马1

Directly after

  • 立马就2
  • 立马去1
  • 立马见效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 立马

What does 立马 mean in Chinese?

立马 (lìmǎ) means at once.

How do you pronounce 立马?

立马 is pronounced lìmǎ.

Is 立马 an HSK word?

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

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