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Chinese symbol for “momentarily”

一时间
yī shí jiān
Traditional: 一時間
for a moment; momentarily

The closest CC-CEDICT match for momentarily is 一时间 (yī shí jiān), defined as: for a moment; momentarily.

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Characters and stroke order

一 yī
one; a, an; alone
radical 1 ⼀ · 1 strokes
时 shí
time, season; period, era, age
radical 72 ⽇ · 7 strokes
间 jiān
between, among; midpoint; space, place, locality
radical 169 ⾨ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 一时间.

WordPinyinMeaning
一个 (一個)yī gea; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
一些yī xiēsome; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er
一样 (一樣)yī yàngsame; like
一定yī dìngsurely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled
一起yī qǐ(in) the same place; together; in company (with)
一直yī zhístraight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through
时间 (時間)shí jiān(concept of) time; (duration of) time
时候 (時候)shí houtime; length of time
之间 (之間)zhī jiān(after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间 (

See also: Japanese symbol for “momentarily”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.