一下
Chinese
[edit]one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.) |
under; next; lower under; next; lower; below; underneath; down(wards); to go down; latter | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (一下) |
一 | 下 | |
| alternative forms | 一吓 Cantonese | ||
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard)
- (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): yi2 ha4
- Cantonese (Jyutping): jat1 haa5
- Gan (Wiktionary): it6 ha5
- Hakka
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 7iq-shia
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄒㄧㄚˋ → ㄧ ˙ㄒㄧㄚ (toneless final syllable variant)
- Tongyong Pinyin: yisiå
- Wade–Giles: i1-hsia5
- Yale: yī-sya
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: i.shiah
- Palladius: ися (isja)
- Sinological IPA (key): /i⁵⁵⁻³⁵ ɕi̯ä⁵¹/ → /i⁵⁵ ɕi̯ä²/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (一下兒 / 一下儿)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄒㄧㄚˋㄦ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yisiàr
- Wade–Giles: i1-hsia4-ʼrh
- Yale: yī-syàr
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ishiall
- Palladius: исяр (isjar)
- Sinological IPA (key): /i⁵⁵⁻³⁵ ɕi̯ɑɻ⁵¹/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: yi2 ha4
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: ixa
- Sinological IPA (key): /i²¹ xa²¹³/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: jat1 haa5
- Yale: yāt háh
- Cantonese Pinyin: jat7 haa5
- Guangdong Romanization: yed1 ha5
- Sinological IPA (key): /jɐt̚⁵ haː¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Gan
- (Nanchang)
- Wiktionary: it6 ha5
- Sinological IPA (key): /it̚⁵ ha¹¹/
- (Nanchang)
- Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yit-ha
- Hakka Romanization System: idˋ ha
- Hagfa Pinyim: yid5 ha4
- Sinological IPA: /it̚² ha⁵⁵/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yit-ha
- Hakka Romanization System: (r)idˋ ha
- Hagfa Pinyim: yid5 ha4
- Sinological IPA: /(j)it̚² ha⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Singapore)
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chi̍t-ēe
- Tâi-lô: tsi̍t-ēe
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sit̚¹²¹⁻²¹ ɛ²²/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chi̍t-lē
- Tâi-lô: tsi̍t-lē
- Phofsit Daibuun: cidle
- IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sit̚⁴⁻³² le³³/
- (Hokkien: Philippines)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --chě
- Tâi-lô: --tsě
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: zêg8 ê7
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tse̍k ē
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sek̚⁴⁻² e¹¹/
- Wu
Adverb
[edit]一下
- one time; once
- a (short) while; a moment
- give something a go; give something a try
- 對於文化問題，我是門外漢，想研究一下，也方在開始。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1940, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《新民主主義論》 (On New Democracy), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Duìyú wénhuà wèntí, wǒ shì ménwàihàn, xiǎng yánjiū yīxià, yě fāng zài kāishǐ. [Pinyin]
- I am a layman in matters of culture; I would like to study them, but have only just begun to do so.
对于文化问题，我是门外汉，想研究一下，也方在开始。 [MSC, simp.]
- suddenly; all at once
- (Sichuanese) entirely; completely
- (Sichuanese) in all; in total
- (Gan, Hakka) together
Synonyms
[edit]- (give something a go):
Dialectal synonyms of 一下 (“give something a go; give something a try”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 一下 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 一下, 看看 |
| Malaysia | 一下 | |
| Singapore | 一下 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 下 |
| Hong Kong | 下 | |
| Macau | 下 | |
| Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) | 下 | |
| Singapore (Guangfu) | 下 | |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 看覓 |
| Quanzhou | 看覓 | |
| Zhangzhou | 看覓 | |
| Taipei | 看覓 | |
| Kaohsiung | 看覓 | |
| Penang (Hokkien) | 看覓 | |
| Singapore (Hokkien) | 看覓, 一下 | |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 覓, 看覓, 一下 | |
| Chaozhou | 睇, 下睇 | |
| Shantou | 一下 | |
| Singapore (Teochew) | 睇 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 看, 一記, 一下 often with non-monosyllabic verbs |
| Suzhou | 看, 一下 | |
| Ningbo | 看 | |
- (suddenly):
- 一下子 (yīxiàzi)
- 一舉 / 一举 (yījǔ)
- 一頭 / 一头 (yītóu)
- 乍然 (zhàrán) (literary)
- 倏忽 (literary)
- 卒爾 / 卒尔 (cù'ěr) (literary)
- 忽地 (hūdì)
- 忽然 (hūrán)
- 𢫦𢫦風 / 𢫦𢫦风 (Hakka)
- 暫 / 暂 (zàn) (literary)
- 猛 (měng)
- 猝然 (cùrán)
- 猛然 (měngrán)
- 猝爾 / 猝尔 (cù'ěr) (literary)
- 突然 (tūrán)
- 突然間 / 突然间 (tūránjiān)
- 豁然 (huòrán) (literary)
- 遽然 (jùrán) (literary)
- 陡 (dǒu) (literary, or in compounds)
- 陡然 (dǒurán)
- 霍然 (huòrán)
- 頓 / 顿 (literary)
- 頓然 / 顿然 (dùnrán)
- 驀地 / 蓦地
- 驀然 / 蓦然 (mòrán) (formal)
- 驟然 / 骤然 (zhòurán) (literary)
- (Hokkien) 一下仔
- (together):
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “Entry #4”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
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