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一晃

yíhuàng

to pass in a flash; in the blink of an eye

A person at a window watches a bird flash past
Memory picture

Characters in this word

一 yī

Strokes
1
Radical
一 — one
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

晃 huǎng

Strokes
10
Radical
日 — sun
Made of
日 sun 光 light
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 一晃十年过去,当年的实验室已经发展成国家重点平台。 Yíhuàng shí nián guòqù, dāngnián de shíyànshì yǐjīng fāzhǎn chéng guójiā zhòngdiǎn píngtái. Ten years passed in a flash, and the laboratory of that time has developed into a national key platform.
  • 一晃孩子都上大学了,时间过得真快。 Yíhuàng háizi dōu shàng dàxué le, shíjiān guò de zhēn kuài. In a flash the kids are already in university — time really flies.
  • 一晃就到年底了,今年的计划完成得怎么样? Yíhuàng jiù dào niándǐ le, jīnnián de jìhuà wánchéng de zěnmeyàng? The end of the year arrived in a blink — how far did this year's plans get?

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