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
- 扯上扯下 to pull up and down
- 天下乌鸦一般黑(天下烏鴉一般黑) all crows are black / evil people are bad all over the world
- 等一下儿(等一下兒) wait on
- 下工夫 to put in time and energy / to concentrate one's efforts
- 在地下 underground
- 下逐客令 to ask somebody to leave / to show somebody the door / to give a tenant notice to leave
- 当下(當下) presently / immediately / at once
- 下滑 sliding / slide
- 如下 as follows
- 攻下 to attack / to take an enemy position
- 活不下去 impossible to make a living
- 下款 signature on letter / name of donor
- 上下其手 to raise and lower one's hand / to signal as conspiratorial hint / conspiring to defraud
- 上下文 textual context
- 下葬 to bury / to inter
- 不在话下(不在話下) to be nothing difficult / to be a cinch
- 抹不下脸(抹不下臉) to be unable to keep a straight face
- 停下来(停下來) to stop
- 名下 under somebody's name
- 按下 press downwards
- 下落 whereabouts
- 泪如雨下(淚如雨下) tears falling like rain
- 居高临下(居高臨下) to live high and look down / to overlook / to tower above / to occupy the high ground / arrogance based on one's social position
- 地下 underground / subterranean / covert
- 下世 to die / future incarnation / next life / to be born / to come into the world / future generation
- 投井下石 to throw stones at somebody who fell down a well / to hit a person who is down
- 卸下 to unload
- 礼贤下士(禮賢下士) respect for the wise
- 雨泽下注(雨澤下注) rainfall
- 自下 to humble oneself
- 下蛋 to lay eggs
- 林下 forest floor ; a wild meadow
- 下工 to knock off (at the end of a day's work) / to finish work
- 下层阶级(下層階級) lower class
- 下意识(下意識) subconscious mind / subconsciousness
- 不耻下问(不恥下問) not feel ashamed to ask and learn from one's subordinates
- 独步天下(獨步天下) unrivaled in the land
- 情急之下 in a moment of desperation
- 覆巢之下无完卵(覆巢之下無完卵) when the nest is upset no egg is left intact / when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed
- 备下(備下) to prepare / to arrange
- 上行下效(上行下傚) subordinates follow the example of their superiors
- 跳下 to jump down
- 写下(寫下) to write down
- 鸟脚下目(鳥腳下目) Ornithopoda, suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs including iguanodon
- 下锚(下錨) to drop anchor
- 舌下含服 sublingual administration
- 月下老人 minor divinity concerned with marriage / matchmaker / go-between
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- 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