| | at once / right away / immediately / on horseback (i.e. by military force) | HSK 1 |
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| | 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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| | again; once more; re- | HSK 2 |
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| | (once) again / also / both... and... / and yet / (used for emphasis) anyway | 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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| | immediately; at once; right away | HSK 3 |
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| | previously / formerly / once upon a time | 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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| | quickly; at once | HSK 3 |
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| | promptly; 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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| | occasionally / once in a while / sometimes | 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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| | to taste; to try (food) / to experience / (literary) ever; once | 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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| | 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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| | immediately / at once / at that moment / at the moment | HSK 7-9 |
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| | as soon as / once (an action has been completed) | 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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| | once more; once again; one more time | HSK 7-9 |
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| | for a time / at one time / one time / once | HSK 7-9 |
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| | at once / right away | |
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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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| | to do two things at once (idiom) / to multitask / to divide one's attention | |
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| | at once / immediately / promptly / swiftly | |
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| | occasionally / once in a while | |
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| | immediately / at once | |
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| | to attempt all tasks at once / to manage every detail regardless of its importance | |
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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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| | once familiar places / former haunts | |
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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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| | to take in the whole scene at once; to have a panoramic view | |
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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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| | lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept | |
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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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| | 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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| | not to be repeated / not to be taken as a precedent / just this once | |
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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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| | 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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| | 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 change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty / never satisfied with what one has | |
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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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| | 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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| | to succeed at the first try (idiom) / easy as pie / one can do it at once | |
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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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| | to have sexual intercourse (once) | |
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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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| | to get sth done once and for all | |
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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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| | 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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| | lit. covet Sichuan once Gansu has been seized / fig. endless greed / insatiable desire | |
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| | then / at once / always / (archaic) luggage rack on a chariot | |
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| | to respond instantly / to act at once on hearing the news | |
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| | to collapse on the first encounter / to give way at once | |
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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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| | 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. 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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| | 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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| | immediately / at once | |
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| | once it gets started there's no stopping it | |
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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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| | first / first time / once / (math.) linear (of degree one) | |
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| | (idiom) every few days; every once in a while | |
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| | the sun and moon shine once more / fig. things get back to normal after an upheaval | |
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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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| | once familiar places / former haunts | |
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| | once; on one occasion | |
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| | this; the present (meeting etc) / this time; this once | |
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| | only met with once every hundred years (drought, flood etc) | |
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| | once is more than enough (idiom) | |
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| | one time (all the way through) / once through | |
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| | water once spilt cannot be retrieved (idiom); irreversible change | |
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| | to have met once / casual acquaintance | |
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| | to get together all at once | |
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| | once a week | |
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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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| | yet again / once again / once more | |
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| | to forget past pains once the wound has healed (idiom) | |
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| | opportunity knocks but once (idiom) | |
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| | once a year (every year) | |
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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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| | 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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| | accidentally / once in a while / very occasionally | |
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| | once / once upon a time | |
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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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| | to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom) / once bitten, twice shy | |
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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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| | 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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| | (TCM) menstruation that comes only once every three months | |
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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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| | Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (published once in 1844 by Karl Marx and bourgeois radical Arnold Ruge) | |
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| | lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記｜史记, Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes / life's vicissitudes | |
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