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下
Meaning
- down
- downwards
- below
Example sentence
检查一下！
Check that.
The character 下
下 is a mark set below a line, and it undoes 上 at every turn: 下边, 楼下, 下车, 下班, 下课, 下次. After a verb it settles something — 坐下, 放下 — and 一下儿 makes an action brief.
Words containing 下
- 楼下 lóu xià downstairs
- 下班 xià bān to finish work; to get off work
- 下边 xià bian under
- 下车 xià chē to get off or out of (a bus, train, car etc)
- 下次 xià cì next time
- 下课 xià kè to finish class
- 下午 xià wǔ afternoon
- 下雨 xià yǔ to rain
- 一下儿 yī xià r erhua form of 一下
- 坐下 zuò xia to sit down
- 放下 fàng xià to lay down; to put down
- 接下来 jiē xià lái to accept
- 零下 líng xià below zero (esp. temperature)
- 留下 liú xià to leave behind
- 下雪 xià xuě to snow
- 下周 xià zhōu next week
- 以下 yǐ xià that level or lower
- 底下 dǐ xia the location below sth
- 下来 xià lai to come down
- 下面 xià miàn below
- 下去 xià qù to go down
- 地下 dì xià underground
- 停下 tíng xià to stop
- 下个月 xià gè yuè next month