一日

yīrì
  1. (literary or dialectal) one day
  2. (literary) another day in the future
  3. (literary) yesterday
  4. another day in the future
  5. one day
  6. yesterday

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Examples

一日不见如隔三秋。

One day apart seems like a separation of three years.

Source: Tatoeba

一日四次，餐后服用。

Take one four times a day, after meals.

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冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Rome was not built in a day.

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我想要參加十一月一日的派對。

I want to attend the party on November 1st.

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那隻狗日復一日地等待著主人的歸來。

The dog waited day after day for its master's return.

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Entry Composition

1 一 yī
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
=2 日 Rì abbr. for 日本 Rìběn, Japan
=2 日 rì
  1. sun
  2. day
  3. date, day of the month

Containing this entry

一日三秋 yīrìsānqiū a single day apart seems like three seasons (idiom)
一日三餐 yīrìsāncān to have three meals a day
一日不如一日 yīrìbùrúyīrì to be getting worse by the day
一日不見，如隔三秋 yīrìbùjiàn,rúgésānqiū one day apart seems like three years (idiom)
一日之計在於晨 yīrìzhījìzàiyúchén
  1. make your day's plan early in the morning (idiom)
  2. early morning is the golden time of the day
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