| | again; once more; re- / further; beyond this point of time / (before an adjective) more / then (after sth, and not until then) / no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也 or 都 for emphasis) / (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則｜再则, 再就是 etc) / (literary) to reappear; to reoccur | HSK 1 |
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| | at once / right away / immediately / on horseback (i.e. by military force) | HSK 1 |
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| | (once) again / also / both... and... / and yet / (used for emphasis) anyway | HSK 2 |
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| | again; once more; re- | HSK 2 |
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| | to stop / to pause / to arrange / to lay out / to kowtow / to stamp (one's foot) / at once / classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal | HSK 3 |
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| | once / already / former / previously / ever / (past tense marker used before verb or clause) | HSK 3 |
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| | immediately; at once; right away | HSK 3 |
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| | previously / formerly / once upon a time | HSK 3 |
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| | promptly; at once | HSK 3 |
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| | quickly; at once | HSK 3 |
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| | once / already / ever (in the past) / former / previously / (past tense marker used before verb or clause) | HSK 4 |
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| | to stand / to set up / to establish / to lay down / to draw up / at once / immediately | HSK 5 |
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| | in case (sth happens) / if / once (sth happens, then...) / when / in a short time / in one day | HSK 5 |
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| | once more; once again | HSK 5 |
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| | in a short while / all at once / all of a sudden | HSK 5 |
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| | occasionally / once in a while / sometimes | HSK 5 |
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| | to taste; to try (food) / to experience / (literary) ever; once | HSK 5 |
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| | once more; once again; one more time | HSK 7-9 |
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| | namely / that is / i.e. / prompt / at once / at present / even if / prompted (by the occasion) / to approach / to come into contact / to assume (office) / to draw near | HSK 7-9 |
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| | as soon as / once (an action has been completed) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | immediately / at once / at that moment / at the moment | HSK 7-9 |
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| | at once / on the spot | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to celebrate a festival / after the celebrations (i.e. once the festival is over) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lively discussion with everybody talking at once | HSK 7-9 |
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| | for a time / at one time / one time / once | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try) / all at once; suddenly | |
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| | at once / right away | |
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| | at once / immediately / promptly / swiftly | |
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| | one time (all the way through) / once through | |
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| | then / at once / always / (archaic) luggage rack on a chariot | |
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| | to get sth done once and for all | |
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| | to root out / to eliminate the roots / to cure once and for all | |
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| | lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept | |
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| | (idiom) every few days; every once in a while | |
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| | once familiar places / former haunts | |
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| | immediately / at once | |
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| | lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one | |
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| | extremely rare (idiom) / once in a blue moon | |
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| | lit. the night-blooming cactus shows once / flash in the pan (idiom) / short-lived | |
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| | spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom) / it's no use crying over spilt milk / what's done is done and can't be reversed / the damage is done / once divorced, there's no reuniting | |
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| | where there's a start, there's a finish (idiom); to finish once one starts sth / to carry things through / I started, so I'll finish. | |
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| | Opportunity knocks but once. (idiom) | |
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| | to attempt all tasks at once / to manage every detail regardless of its importance | |
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| | where there's a start, there's a finish (idiom); to finish once one starts sth / to carry things through / I started, so I'll finish. | |
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| | lit. to attend to one thing and lose sight of another (idiom) / fig. to be unable to manage two or more things at once / cannot pay attention to one thing without neglecting the other | |
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| | lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful | |
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| | thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive / once you've seen one, you've seen them all | |
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| | not to be repeated / not to be taken as a precedent / just this once | |
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| | once familiar places / former haunts | |
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| | first / first time / once / (math.) linear (of degree one) | |
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| | (idiom) once the main problem is solved, all troubles are solved; death ends all one's troubles | |
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| | to change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty / never satisfied with what one has | |
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| | to respond instantly / to act at once on hearing the news | |
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| | suddenly opens up to a wide panorama (idiom); to come to a wide clearing / fig. everything becomes clear at once / to achieve speedy enlightenment | |
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| | lit. to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose | |
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| | where there's a start, there's a finish (idiom); to finish once one starts sth / to carry things through / I started, so I'll finish. | |
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| | to collapse on the first encounter / to give way at once | |
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| | lit. covet Sichuan once Gansu has been seized / fig. endless greed / insatiable desire | |
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| | lit. warning to the following cart (idiom); don't follow the track of an overturned cart / fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor / learn from past mistake / once bitten twice shy | |
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| | to do sth once in a while (idiom) / to do sth more as an exception than the rule | |
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| | used in place-names, e.g. 溵水 was once the name of the Shahe River 沙河, Henan, and 溵州 was a Tang Dynasty prefecture | |
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| | lit. set out and it becomes spring (idiom); to effect a miracle cure (of medical operation) / to bring back the dead / once it starts, everything goes well | |
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| | to have met once / casual acquaintance | |
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| | only met with once every hundred years (drought, flood etc) | |
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| | lit. the birds are over, the bow is put away (idiom); fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose | |
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| | lit. the cart in front overturns, a warning to the following cart (idiom); fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor / learn from past mistake / once bitten twice shy | |
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| | immediately / at once | |
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| | to succeed at the first try (idiom) / easy as pie / one can do it at once | |
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| | once is more than enough (idiom) | |
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| | once; on one occasion | |
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| | once / once upon a time | |
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| | this; the present (meeting etc) / this time; this once | |
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| | occasionally / once in a while | |
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| | (of a person) to return to the fray after a period of inactivity; to jump back into the thick of things / (of sth that was once popular) to be resurrected; to make a comeback | |
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| | to do two things at once (idiom) / to multitask / to divide one's attention | |
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| | (coll.) while doing it; on the way through / (coll.) immediately; at once / (of a touch screen) responsive to the user's finger movements | |
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| | seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom); seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others / seeing is believing | |
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| | once a week | |
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| | to forget past pains once the wound has healed (idiom) | |
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| | lit. once bitten by a snake, one is scared all one's life at the mere sight of a rope (saying) / fig. once bitten, twice shy | |
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| | to get together all at once | |
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| | lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom) / fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was | |
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| | lit. once you've shot the arrow, there's no getting it back (idiom) / fig. once you started sth, there's no turning back / to have to finish what one started / to be determined to reach one's goals in spite of setbacks | |
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| | opportunity knocks but once (idiom) | |
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| | to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve) | |
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| | "shikumen" style architecture: traditional (ca. 19th century) residences with courtyards, once common in Shanghai | |
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| | to be impossible to stop once started | |
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| | Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (published once in 1844 by Karl Marx and bourgeois radical Arnold Ruge) | |
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| | to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom) / once bitten, twice shy | |
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| | lit. a good horse doesn't turn around and graze the same patch again (idiom) / fig. once you've moved on, don't go back again (romantic relationship, job etc) / leave the past behind | |
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| | (TCM) menstruation that comes only once every three months | |
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| | to have sexual intercourse (once) | |
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| | once again | |
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| | once it gets started there's no stopping it | |
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| | accidentally / once in a while / very occasionally | |
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| | yet again / once again / once more | |
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| | may be done once and once only; just this once | |
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| | (coll.) menstruation that comes only once every three months | |
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| | the sun and moon shine once more / fig. things get back to normal after an upheaval | |
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| | once a year (every year) | |
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