adjective #33,110

Meanings

  1. 1 (literary, bound form) next (day/year); the following

Examples

Yìrì qīngchén, tā biàn qǐchéng le.
The next morning, he set off.
Yìnián chūntiān, tāmen chóngféng le.
The following spring, they were reunited.

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Literary — almost never appears alone in modern Chinese. Lives in the fixed pair 翌日 (yìrì, 'the next day') and (yìnián, 'the next year'), both common in news, novels, and historical texts. Modern colloquial equivalents: 第二 / 第二.
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('feather') below ('to stand') — the original meaning was 'next day' (when feathers spread / sun rises again). Same root as (yì, 'wing').

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