<p>开<em><strong>会儿</strong></em>暖气 = 开<em><strong>一会儿</strong></em>暖气 = Turn on the heater for a while.</p>
<p>In colloquial language, <em><strong>一</strong></em> is often omitted in <em><strong>一会儿</strong></em>. It is not very often used in the literature.</p>

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2023-04-21T15:01:13.243Z
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PdotWang
<p>You've parsed it incorrectly. Here 开 + 会儿 are separate words.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&amp;wdrst=0&amp;wdqb=%E5%BC%80" rel="nofollow noreferrer">开</a> = to turn on</li>
<li><a href="https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&amp;wdrst=0&amp;wdqb=%E4%B8%80%E4%BC%9A%E5%84%BF" rel="nofollow noreferrer">会儿</a> = for a bit / for a moment</li>
</ul>
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<p>If you put the sentence into a <a href="https://translate.google.com/?sl=zh-CN&amp;tl=en&amp;text=%E4%BB%8A%E5%A4%A9%E6%9C%89%E7%82%B9%E5%84%BF%E5%86%B7%2C%E5%BC%80%E4%BC%9A%E5%84%BF%E6%9A%96%E6%B0%94%E5%90%A7%E3%80%82&amp;op=translate" rel="nofollow noreferrer">machine translation</a> you'd get something like:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>It's a bit cold today, let's turn on the heating for a while.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Which would give you a good idea of what the original meant.</p>

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2023-04-21T05:50:26.490Z
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Mou某
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<p>今天有点儿冷,开会儿暖气吧。</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I guess that 开会 here might have a meaning of  &quot;turn on a switch&quot; or kind of like that.</p>
<p>But as I looked up several dictionaries then I was only able to find a definition &quot;to hold/attend a meeting&quot;.</p>
<p>And about 暖气, I've only been able to find out that this term can only be as noun.</p>
<p>Is there some misprint exists in the original sentence?</p>

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2023-04-21T05:46:57.657Z
[开](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%96%8B#Chinese) (to turn on) [会儿](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9C%83%E5%85%92#Chinese) (for a while)
alephalpha
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Is this 开会 only means "hold a meeting" of 今天有点儿冷,开会儿暖气吧。
# Is this 开会 only means "hold a meeting" of 今天有点儿冷,开会儿暖气吧。

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-04-21)

> 今天有点儿冷,开会儿暖气吧。

I guess that 开会 here might have a meaning of "turn on a switch" or kind of like that.

But as I looked up several dictionaries then I was only able to find a definition "to hold/attend a meeting".

And about 暖气, I've only been able to find out that this term can only be as noun.

Is there some misprint exists in the original sentence?

**Tags:** grammar, verbs

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: [开](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%96%8B#Chinese) (to turn on) [会儿](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9C%83%E5%85%92#Chinese) (for a while)  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2023-04-21. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

You've parsed it incorrectly. Here 开 + 会儿 are separate words.

* [开](https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=%E5%BC%80) = to turn on
* [会儿](https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=%E4%B8%80%E4%BC%9A%E5%84%BF) = for a bit / for a moment

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If you put the sentence into a [machine translation](https://translate.google.com/?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&text=%E4%BB%8A%E5%A4%A9%E6%9C%89%E7%82%B9%E5%84%BF%E5%86%B7%2C%E5%BC%80%E4%BC%9A%E5%84%BF%E6%9A%96%E6%B0%94%E5%90%A7%E3%80%82&op=translate) you'd get something like:

> It's a bit cold today, let's turn on the heating for a while.

Which would give you a good idea of what the original meant.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2023-04-21. Score: 2

开***会儿***暖气 = 开***一会儿***暖气 = Turn on the heater for a while.

In colloquial language, ***一*** is often omitted in ***一会儿***. It is not very often used in the literature.


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