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A2 Chinese listening practice · Mainland Mandarin · Curated for beginners
What does “一见钟情” (yījiànzhōngqíng) mean in Chinese?
一见钟情 (yījiànzhōngqíng) means love at first sight. It breaks into 一见 (yī jiàn, “one glance”) and 钟情 (zhōngqíng, “to pour one’s feelings into” — 钟 here means “to concentrate or focus deeply”). In the clip a girlfriend pretends to be a stranger and asks her boyfriend if she can add him on WeChat. He says yes immediately, which she spins into a declaration: 我永远都会对你一见钟情 — “I will always fall for you at first sight” — every time she sees him.
The chengyu captures the instantaneous, involuntary quality of attraction. The character 钟 (zhōng) also means “bell” or “clock,” but in 钟情 it carries the classical sense of “to concentrate all feeling on one person.” You can use the idiom beyond romance: 我一见钟情于这座城市 means “I fell in love with this city the moment I saw it.” The clip’s setup — girlfriend testing boyfriend — is a popular social media format, and the boyfriend’s non-romantic reading of the whole scenario (he just thought a stranger was talking to him) is the payoff that makes the idiom land.