一旦

一旦

Chinese

		one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)	dawn; morning; day-break dawn; morning; day-break; day
simp. and trad. (一旦)		一	旦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīdàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ ㄉㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jat¹ daan³, jat¹ daan⁶

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yit-tán
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): it-tàn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zêg⁸ dang³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīdàn [Phonetic: yídàn]
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄉㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yidàn
    • Wade–Giles: i¹-tan⁴
    • Yale: yī-dàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: idann
    • Palladius: идань (idanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵⁻³⁵ tän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jat¹ daan³, jat¹ daan⁶
    • Yale: yāt daan, yāt daahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jat⁷ daan³, jat⁷ daan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yed¹ dan³, yed¹ dan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐt̚⁵ taːn³³/, /jɐt̚⁵ taːn²²/

Note: jat1 daan6 - variant pronunciation for "once, as soon as".

• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yit-tán
    • Hakka Romanization System: id` dan`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yid⁵ dan³
    • Sinological IPA: /it̚² tan³¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yit-tán
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)id` dan`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yid⁵ dan³
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)it̚² tan³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: it-tàn
    • Tâi-lô: it-tàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: itdaxn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /it̚³²⁻⁴ tan²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /it̚⁵⁻²⁴ tan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /it̚³²⁻⁵ tan²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /it̚³²⁻⁴ tan¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /it̚³²⁻⁴ tan²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zêg⁸ dang³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tse̍k tàng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sek̚⁴⁻² taŋ²¹³/

Adverb

一旦

1. once; as soon as

Synonyms

• 一……就…… (yī...jiù...)

Noun

一旦

1. (literary) one day (all of a sudden); single day

Synonyms

• (literary, or dialectal) 一日 (yīrì)
• 一天 (yītiān)

Derived terms

一旦無常萬事休／一旦无常万事休

毀於一旦／毁于一旦 (huǐyúyīdàn)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
一	旦
いち > いっ Grade: 1	たん Grade: S
on’yomi

Adverb

一(いっ)旦(たん) • (ittan) 

1. once
2. temporarily

Noun

一(いっ)旦(たん) • (ittan) 

1. one time

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Korean

Hanja in this term
一	旦

一旦 • (ildan) (hangeul 일단)

1. Hanja form^? of 일단 (“once; for the moment”).