Traditional: 次

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Translation

time, occasion, instance (measure word for occurrences)

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Examples

I have watched this film twice.

This time we have to win.

This is my first time on a plane.

hǎi

This is my third time in Shanghai.

He called me several times.

次 (cì) is the standard measure word for counting occurrences of an action, as in 一次 (once), 这次 (this time), and 每次 (every time). It also appears in fixed time expressions like 第一次 (the first time) and 再次 (once more).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 次.

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This word is part of lesson 101.