EntryCommon
  1. a while; a spell; a short time; a burst

    trad. 一陣子

Also written 一陣子【yī zhèn zi】

Characters in this word

3
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

one, single, a (article), as soon as, entire; whole; all; throughout, "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1), also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Pinyin
Strokes
1
Frequency
158 of 2500
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

son, child, seed, egg, small thing, 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat, viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north), subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-

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Strokes
3
Frequency
2170 of 2500