While in Chinese
a while · HSK 2
一会
- 一 one
- 会 can
请你在这儿等一会。 Please wait here for a moment.
Other ways to say while
More words with 一 or 会
How do you say while in Chinese?
While in Chinese is 一会 (yī huì). You can also say 一会儿 (yī huì r), 趁 (chèn), 时 (shí), 一阵 (yī zhèn).
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?
The CC-CEDICT 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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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.