Dictionary › 一定

一定

yī dìng

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

一定 (yī dìng) means "surely". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 一定 means

1. surely; certainly; definitely
2. fixed; settled
3. a certain ...; a given ...

The characters in 一定

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 定dìngto fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc)…

Example sentences

• 这一定是我。
  It has to be me.

Words containing 一定

• 不一定bù yī dìngnot necessarily; maybe

Where 一定 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 dìng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.