一下

Chinese

		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

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): yīxià

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ ㄒㄧㄚˋ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): yi² ha⁴

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jat¹ haa⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yit-ha
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chi̍t-ē / chi̍t-ēe / chi̍t-lē

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zêg⁸ ê⁷

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁷iq-gho

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīxià [Phonetic: yíxià] → yīxia (toneless final syllable variant)
    • 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: yīxiàr [Phonetic: yíxiàr]
    • 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/
• 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/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yit-ha
    • Hakka Romanization System: id` ha
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yid<sup>5</sup> ha<sup>4</sup>
    • Sinological IPA: /it̚² ha⁵⁵/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yit-ha
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)id` ha
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yid⁵ ha⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)it̚² ha⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chi̍t-ē
    • Tâi-lô: tsi̍t-ē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cid'e
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sit̚²⁴⁻² e⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sit̚⁴⁻³² e³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sit̚⁴⁻³² e²²/
  • (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/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zêg⁸ ê⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tse̍k ē
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sek̚⁴⁻² e¹¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁷iq-gho
    • MiniDict: ih^入 gho
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴iq-hho
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /iɪʔ³³ ɦo⁴⁴/

Adverb

(deprecated template usage) 一下

1. one time; once

   他打了我一下。  ―  Tā dǎ le wǒ yīxià.  ―  He hit me once.

2. a (short) while; a moment

   等一下  ―  děng yīxià  ―  wait a moment

   休息一下  ―  xiūxī yīxià  ―  rest a while

   抱一下  ―  bào yīxià  ―  give a quick hug

   小等一下 [Hokkien]  ―  sió-tán--chi̍t-ē [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  wait a moment

3. give something a go; give something a try

   看一下  ―  kàn yīxià  ―  take a look

   聞一下／闻一下  ―  wén yīxià  ―  try smelling it

4. (Cantonese) suddenly; all at once

   你一下噉問，我真係唔知點答你喎。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   你一下噉问，我真系唔知点答你㖞。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   nei⁵ jat¹ haa⁵ gam² man⁶, ngo⁵ zan¹ hai⁶ m⁴ zi¹ dim² daap³ nei⁵ wo³. [Jyutping]

   Your question just came all at once. I really don't know how to answer you.

5. (Sichuanese) entirely; completely
6. (Sichuanese) in all; in total

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 突然 (“suddenly”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		突然, 忽然, 猝然
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		突然, 忽然, 猛然, 驀地, 乍然, 倏忽, 驟然, 猝然, 突然間, 冷不防, 一下, 一下子
Mandarin	Beijing	忽然間, 冒猛地, 冒猛子, 冒冷子, 乍猛地, 乍乍地, 乍麼實兒, 虎拉巴兒, 一下兒, 一下子
	Taiwan	突然, 忽然, 突然間, 忽然間
	Yangzhou	突乎其然
	Singapore	突然, 忽然, 突然間, 忽然間
Cantonese	Guangzhou	突然, 突然間, 突然之間, 失驚無神, 失驚忘神
	Hong Kong	突然, 突然間, 突然之間, 忽然, 忽然間, 忽然之間, 失驚無神, 失雞無神, 一下
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	忽然間
	Taishan	突然之間
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	突然
Gan	Nanchang	突然
Hakka	Meixian	玄工, 玄玄風, 突然
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	突然間, 忽然間
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	突然間, 忽然間
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	突然間, 忽然間
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	突然間, 忽然間
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	突然間, 忽然間
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	突然
	Hong Kong	陣時間
	Senai (Huiyang)	陣間
Northern Min	Jian'ou	臨陣, 三不臨陣
Southern Min	Xiamen	突然, 忽然, 暴其然, 無張無持, 無張持
	Quanzhou	突然, 忽然, 無張無持, 無張持
	Zhangzhou	突然, 忽然, 暴其然, 無張無持, 無張持, 喝一下
	Tainan	突然間, 忽然間, 雄雄, 無張持
	Penang (Hokkien)	雄險
	Singapore (Hokkien)	突然間, 忽然間
	Manila (Hokkien)	忽然間
	Shantou	突然
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	突然
Wu	Shanghai	著生頭裡, 著陌生頭, 著陌生裡, 著末生頭, 辣陌生頭, 辣末生頭, 辣末生裡, 冷陌生頭, 突然之間, 突然, 忽聲能
	Wenzhou	單下

• (Min Nan) 一下仔

References

• “Entry #4”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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