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一个人

一個人traditional

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yī gè rén

by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company)

Examples

他一个人生活。

He lives by himself.

他当时一个人。

He was alone at the time.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.