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之间

之間traditional

HSK 4#476 by frequencyradical 丿

zhī jiān["f"]

(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)

Examples

我们之间有个叛徒。

We have a traitor among us.

这是我们之间的秘密。

This is secret between you and me.

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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.