(yí tàng) - a trip, one journey there and back in Mandarin
yítàngTraditional: 一趟
Translation
a trip, one journey there and back
Word origin
一 (yī, one) with the measure word 趟 (tàng), which is 走 (to walk) beside 尚 (shàng, phonetic) and counts journeys made and returned from.
- Origin
- numeral plus measure word
- Root
- 一 (yī, one) + 趟 (tàng, measure word for trips), from 走 (walk) + 尚 (shàng, phonetic)
Stroke order
一
趟
Examples
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I have to make a trip to Shanghai tomorrow.
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He made the trip for nothing; the person was out.
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Could you go to the bank for me?
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There is only one bus a day from here to the airport.
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Let us make one more trip to the hospital.
一趟 (yí tàng) counts a trip: you go somewhere and you come back. It is not the same unit as 一次, which counts occurrences of anything at all. A journey gets 趟; an attempt, a meeting or a mistake gets 次.
It follows the verb, not precedes it: 去一趟银行, 跑一趟, 走一趟. It is also the measure word for scheduled services, so a bus or train on a timetable is 一趟车.
The trap is the tone sandhi. 一 is first tone in isolation but shifts to second before a fourth-tone syllable, so this is yí tàng and never yī tàng. The same shift gives 一个 as yí gè.
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