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一会儿 (yī huì r): meaning and stroke order

一会儿 (yī huì r) means a moment, a while, in a moment, now...now..., also pr..

一会儿

Simplified
一会儿
Traditional
一會兒
Pinyin
yī huì r

Stroke order of 一会儿

一

  • yī one; single
  • 1 stroke

Stroke by stroke

会

  • huì can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to
  • kuài (bound form) to reckon accounts
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 會

Stroke by stroke

儿

  • ér child; son
  • r non-syllabic diminutive suffix; retroflex final
  • 2 strokes
  • Traditional form: 兒

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 一会儿

  1. yī huì r Traditional 一會兒
    • a moment
    • a while
    • in a moment
    • now...now...
    • also pr. [yi1 hui3 r5]

Radicals of the characters

一
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 1 stroke
会
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 6 strokes · 𠆢 on top, 云 below
儿
Radical 儿 (Kangxi radical 10) · 2 strokes · 丿 on the left, 乚 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

一会儿 in our stories

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  • 过了一会儿，她笑了笑，说：“其实我不喜欢喝咖啡。”

    guò le yíhuìr tā xiào le xiào shuō qíshí wǒ bù xǐhuan hē kāfēi

    After a while she said with a smile, "Actually, I don't like coffee."

    From the story The first date HSK 2

  • 王阿姨说，她年轻的时候是钢琴老师，现在每天下班以后，就来弹一会儿。

    Wáng āyí shuō tā niánqīng de shíhou shì gāngqín lǎoshī xiànzài měitiān xiàbān yǐhòu jiù lái tán yíhuìr

    Auntie Wang said she had been a piano teacher when she was young; now she came to play for a while every day after work.

    From the story The piano at midnight HSK 4

  • 那天天气很热。过了不一会儿，一群苍蝇飞了过来，在镰刀上空转了几圈，然后全部落在了其中一把上，怎么赶也赶不走。

    nà tiān tiānqì hěn rè guò le bù yíhuìr yì qún cāngying fēi le guòlai zài liándāo shàngkōng zhuàn le jǐ quān ránhòu quánbù luò zài le qízhōng yì bǎ shàng zěnme gǎn yě gǎn bù zǒu

    It was a hot day. Before long a swarm of flies flew over, circled above the sickles a few times, and then all settled on one of them; nothing could drive them off.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 一会儿

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).