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一共

yī gòng

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

一共 (yī gòng) means "altogether". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 一共 means

1. in total; altogether

The characters in 一共

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 共gòngcommon; general; to share

Example sentences

• 一共要多少钱？
  Yīgòng yào duōshao qián?
  How much will it all cost?
• 算上你一共十个人
  Including you there will be 10 people.
• 你一共花了多少钱？
  Nǐ yīgòng huā le duōshao qián?
  What is the total amount of money you spent?
• 一共有十多个学生。
  There are about ten to twenty students in total.
• 我这趟旅程一共在内需要十二天。
  This trip of mine would need twelve days in total.
• 我的姓、名一共有五十划，写起来麻烦得很。
  It's a lot of trouble to write my name, because it takes 50 strokes to write both my first and last names.

Where 一共 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Connectors, Conjunctions & Key Adverbs (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yī gòng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.