Little by little in Chinese
little by little · HSK 5
渐渐
- 渐 gradually
天渐渐黑了。 It's gradually getting dark.
Other ways to say little by little
How do you say little by little in Chinese?
Little by little in Chinese is 渐渐 (jiàn jiàn). You can also say 逐渐 (zhú jiàn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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