下 xià

1. xià pronoun next
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '下' adj 2)
2. xià noun bottom
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 底部 (Guoyu '下' n 1; Unihan '下')
3. xià 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)
4. xià measure word measure word for time
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
   Notes: (Guoyu '下' n 6)
5. xià adverb expresses completion of an action
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
   Notes: (Guoyu '下' adv 1)
6. xià verb to announce
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 颁布 (Guoyu '下' v 8)
7. xià verb to do
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 使用 (Guoyu '下' v 10)
8. xià verb to withdraw; to leave; to exit
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '下' v 6)
9. xià preposition under; below
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
   Notes: Also considered a locative particle (Sun 2006, loc. 903)
10. xià noun the lower class; a member of the lower class
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '下' n 2)
11. xià noun inside
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '下' n 3)
12. xià noun an aspect
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 方面 (Guoyu '下' n 4)
13. xià noun a certain time
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '下' n 5)
14. xià measure word a time; an instance
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
    Notes: (Guoyu '下' n 6)
15. xià verb to capture; to take
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 攻克 (Guoyu '下' v 2)
16. xià verb to put in
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 放入 or 投入 (Guoyu '下' v 3)
17. xià verb to enter
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 进入 (Guoyu '下' v 4)
18. xià 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)
19. xià 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)
20. xià verb to go
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 往 (Guoyu '下' v 11)
21. xià verb to scorn; to look down on
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 轻视 (Guoyu '下' v 12)
22. xià verb to modestly decline
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 谦让 (Guoyu '下' v 13)
23. xià verb to produce
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 生产 (Guoyu '下' v 14)
24. xià 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)
25. xià verb to decide
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 决定 (Guoyu '下' v 16)
26. xià verb to be less than
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 少于 (Guoyu '下' v 17)
27. xià adjective humble; lowly
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 微贱 (Guoyu '下' adj 3)

Contained in

• 下江 to flow downriver ; lower reaches of the Yangtze ; Jiangsu
• 乡下习气(鄉下習氣) country manners; provincialism
• 水下核爆炸 nuclear underwater burst; underwater nuclear explosion
• 阁下(閣下) your excellency
• 下寒武 lower Cambrian
• 下牐 to lower a sluice gate
• 平天下 to pacify the country
• 秦并天下(秦並天下) Qin united the empire
• 下款 signature on letter; name of donor
• 千里之行，始于足下(千里之行，始於足下) a thousand mile journey begins with the first step
• 月下老人 minor divinity concerned with marriage; matchmaker; go-between
• 撒母耳记下(撒母耳記下) Second book of Samuel
• 低三下四 servile
• 自下 to humble oneself
• 抛下锚(拋下錨) to drop anchor
• 降下 to fall; to drop
• 下场门(下場門) exit door (of the stage)
• 囫囵吞下(囫圇吞下) to swallow whole; (fig.) to swallow (lies etc)
• 挟天子以令天下(挾天子以令天下) (expr.) hold the feudal overlord and you control the whole country
• 自上而下 top-down
• 党的领导下(黨的領導下) under the leadership of the Party
• 创下(創下) to establish; to set (a new record)
• 下颌骨(下頜骨) lower jaw; mandible
• 下架 to take down from the shelves (e.g. a contaminated product)
• 下沉 to sink down
• 下腰 (gymnastics) to do a bridge; to do a crab
• 下颌(下頜) upper jaw; mandible
• 日下 under the sun ; at present ; on that day ; capital city ; distant ; Rixia
• 剩下 to remain; to be left over
• 不分上下 not to know one's place
• 下达(下達) to transmit to lower levels of an organization
• 脚下 sole [of the foot] ; feet ; present ; shoes ; where the emperor stays ; under the foot
• 等一下儿(等一下兒) wait on
• 创下高票房(創下高票房) to set a box office record
• 脑下垂体(腦下垂體) pituitary glands (at the base of the skull)
• 地下核试验(地下核試驗) underground nuclear test
• 一气之下(一氣之下) in a fit of pique; in a fury
• 倒下 to collapse; to topple over
• 舌下 sublingual; hypoglossal
• 拖下水 to pull somebody into the water; to involve somebody in a messy business; to get somebody into trouble
• 坐下 to sit down
• 上吐下泻(上吐下瀉) to vomit and have diarrhea
• 台下 off the stage; in the audience
• 舞于松柏之下(舞於松柏之下) dances beneath the pine-trees and cypresses
• 下不了台(下不了臺) to be unable to extricate oneself gracefully; to be put on the spot; to be embarrassed
• 颔下(頷下) under one's chin
• 下流 low-class; mean and lowly; vulgar; obscene ; lower course of a river
• 下属(下屬) subordinate

Also contained in

白下 、 下花园区 、 下陆

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