一件件

yījiànjiàn

phrase #35,813

Meanings

1 one item after another
2 piece by piece
3 one by one (of clothing, items, matters that take 件 as their measure word)

Characters

item (measure word)

item (measure word, reduplicated)

Examples

她把衣服一件件叠好。

Tā bǎ yīfu yī jiàn jiàn dié hǎo.

She folded the clothes one by one.

他一件件地交代事情的经过。

Tā yī jiàn jiàn de jiāodài shìqing de jīngguò.

He recounted what happened one matter at a time.

一件件往事浮现在脑海里。

Yī jiàn jiàn wǎngshì fúxiàn zài nǎohǎi lǐ.

Past events surfaced in his mind one after another.

Tips

grammar

Reduplication of the measure word 件 with 一 — a productive pattern that turns any measure word into 'one X after another' (一个个, 一条条, 一次次). Often takes 地 (de) before a verb to act as an adverbial.

Stroke Order

一 yī

件 jiàn