What does it mean in Chinese?

What does 一阵 mean?

一阵 yīzhèn

a burst; a spell; a fit (as in 一阵风)

It can also mean

  • a while; a period of time
  • (sports) first team (in all-star selections, short for 第一阵容)

Its characters

  1. 一 yī one
  2. 阵 zhèn classifier for short spells (of wind, rain, applause)

In a sentence

他跪下来,向西拜了几拜,然后轻轻一揭,那张纸就被一阵香风吹走了。

From 救出悟空 · Freed from the Mountain

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