下 xià
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pronoun
next
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '下' adj 2) -
noun
bottom
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 底部 (Guoyu '下' n 1; Unihan '下') -
verb
to fall / to drop / to go down / to descend
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 降落 (Guoyu '下' v 1) -
measure word
measure word for time
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
Notes: (Guoyu '下' n 6) -
adverb
expresses completion of an action
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: (Guoyu '下' adv 1) -
verb
to announce
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 颁布 (Guoyu '下' v 8) -
verb
to do
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 使用 (Guoyu '下' v 10) -
verb
to withdraw / to leave / to exit
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '下' v 6) -
preposition
under / below
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: Also considered a locative particle (Sun 2006, loc. 903) -
noun
the lower class / a member of the lower class
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '下' n 2) -
noun
inside
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '下' n 3) -
noun
an aspect
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 方面 (Guoyu '下' n 4) -
noun
a certain time
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '下' n 5) -
measure word
a time / an instance
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: (Guoyu '下' n 6) -
verb
to capture / to take
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 攻克 (Guoyu '下' v 2) -
verb
to put in
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 放入 or 投入 (Guoyu '下' v 3) -
verb
to enter
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 进入 (Guoyu '下' v 4) -
verb
to eliminate / to remove / to get off
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 除去 (Guoyu '下' v 5) -
verb
to finish work or school
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 下班 or 下课 (Guoyu '下' v 6) -
verb
to go
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 往 (Guoyu '下' v 11) -
verb
to scorn / to look down on
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 轻视 (Guoyu '下' v 12) -
verb
to modestly decline
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 谦让 (Guoyu '下' v 13) -
verb
to produce
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 生产 (Guoyu '下' v 14) -
verb
to stay at / to lodge at
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 住宿 or 留宿 (Guoyu '下' v 14) -
verb
to decide
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 决定 (Guoyu '下' v 16) -
verb
to be less than
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 少于 (Guoyu '下' v 17) -
adjective
humble / lowly
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 微贱 (Guoyu '下' adj 3)
Contained in
- 脚下 sole [of the foot] ; feet ; present ; shoes ; where the emperor stays ; under the foot
- 垂下 to hang (down) / to droop / to dangle / to bend down
- 不相上下 equally matched / about the same
- 不下于 as many as / no less than / not inferior to / as good as / on a par with
- 下月 next month
- 下药(下藥) to prescribe medicine / to poison / to slip a drug (into somebody's drink etc)
- 落井下石 to throw stones at sb who fell down a well / to hit a person who is down
- 下课(下課) to finish class
- 上下 to go up and down ; to increase and decrease ; face-to-face ; approximately ; top and bottom ; a bailiff ; to ask about a taboo name
- 腋下 underarm / armpit
- 下逐客令 to ask somebody to leave / to show somebody the door / to give a tenant notice to leave
- 阁下(閣下) your excellency
- 戏下(戲下) subordinate [military] officers
- 手下 under one's control or administration
- 颔下腺(頷下腺) submaxillary glands
- 低首下心 to be fawningly submissive
- 降下 to fall / to drop
- 下榻 to stay (at a hotel etc during a trip)
- 下边儿(下邊兒) unerneath
- 折节下贤(折節下賢) to be humble in front of sages
- 名下 under somebody's name
- 下箭头键(下箭頭鍵) down arrow key (on keyboard)
- 一统天下(一統天下) to unify the empire
- 下岗(下崗) to be laid-off ; to come off sentry duty
- 下雪(下雪) to snow ; to snow
- 富甲天下 exceedingly wealthy
- 折节下交(折節下交) to bow oneself to interact with others of lower standing ; to be humble in social interaction
- 放射性落下灰 radioactive fallout
- 记下(記下) to note down
- 三下五除二 three, set five remove two (abacus rule) / efficiently / quickly and easily
- 贫下中农(貧下中農) (category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)
- 上下文 textual context
- 在下面 underneath
- 一气之下(一氣之下) in a fit of pique / in a fury
- 下线(下線) to go offline
- 下毒 to put poison in / to poison
- 自顶向下(自頂向下) top-down
- 颔下(頷下) under one's chin
- 列王纪下(列王紀下) Second book of Kings
- 下颔骨(下頷骨) lower jawbone / mandible
- 冈下肌(岡下肌) infraspinatus muscle
- 下一站 the next stop (of a bus etc)
- 下确界(下確界) infimum / greatest lower bound
- 情急之下 in a moment of desperation
Also contained in
下里巴人 、 五下 、 下马陵 、 上山下乡 、 下花园 、 下西洋 、 向下门
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷四十四 志第二十四: 職官三 Volume 44 Treatises 24: Government Service 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 379
- 卷四十三上 志第三十三上 地理七上 Volume 43a Treatises 37: Gepgraphy 7a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 354
- 卷五十八 志第十: 地理一 Volume 58 Treatises 11: Geography 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 304
- 卷六十 志第十二: 地理三 Volume 60 Treatises 13: Geography 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 265
- 卷六十三 表第三 宰相下 Volume 63 Tables 3: Chancellors 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 191
- 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 187
- 卷五十九 志第十一: 地理二 Volume 59 Treatises 12: Geography 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 177
- 卷四十八 志第三十八 百官三 Volume 48 Treatises 43: Official Posts 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 176
- 卷四十二 志第二十二: 職官一 Volume 42 Treatises 22: Government Service 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 172
- 卷六十三 志第十五: 地理六 Volume 63 Treatises 16: Geography 6 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 155