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下

xià

Traditional: 下

HSK 1
#167 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

below, down, under, next

Stroke order

Stroke order for 下

下

Examples

？

What is underneath?

？

Who is next?

。

Please sit down.

。

Please put the book down.

雨yǔ。

It is raining outside.

下 (xià) means below, down, under, next. It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.

Related words

地方

place, location, area

来

to come (directional)

拿

to take, to hold, to grab

然后

then, after that, afterwards

上帝

God, the Lord

Appears in 9 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 下.

一下yí xiàa moment, once, briefly下来xià láito come down, to descend下去xià qùto go down; to continue, to keep going留下liú xiàto stay behind, to remain; to leave (something) behind坐下zuò xiàto sit down放下fàng xiàto put down, to let go of下面xià miànbelow, under, beneath剩下shèng xiàto be left over, remaining下次xià cìnext time

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This word is part of lesson 4.