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

• 下水道 sewer
• 地下水 groundwater
• 不分上下 not to know one's place
• 在下面 underneath
• 汗如雨下 to sweat like rain; to perspire profusely
• 拆下 to dismantle; to take apart
• 下江 to flow downriver ; lower reaches of the Yangtze ; Jiangsu
• 南下 to go down south
• 下闸(下閘) lower sluice gate; outflow sluice
• 忠陛下 loyally serve your highness
• 下棋 to play chess
• 目下 at present
• 记下(記下) to note down
• 秦并天下(秦並天下) Qin united the empire
• 下任 next office holder; next to serve
• 下令 to order; to command
• 上下班时间(上下班時間) rush hour
• 甘拜下风(甘拜下風) to step down gracefully (humble expression); to concede defeat; to play second fiddle
• 淌下 to let drip; to trickle down; to shed (tears)
• 腋下 underarm; armpit
• 下片 to stop screening a movie; to end the run of a movie
• 下定决心(下定決心) to make a firm resolution
• 心下 in mind
• 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)
• 下弦月 third quarter or waning moon
• 下课(下課) to finish class
• 卑下 base; low
• 不相上下 equally matched; about the same
• 依人篱下(依人籬下) to sponge off somebody else
• 放不下心 cannot stop worrying
• 承上起下 to follow the past and herald the future; part of a historical transition
• 下身 lower body
• 三下五除二 three, set five remove two (abacus rule); efficiently; quickly and easily
• 下崽 (of animals) to give birth; to foal
• 木下 Kinoshita (Japanese surname)
• 下月 next month
• 褪下 to take off (trousers); to drop one's pants
• 夸下海口(誇下海口) to boast a mouth as big as the sea; to exaggerate
• 下死劲(下死勁) to do one's utmost
• 下乳 to promote lactation (TCM)
• 伞下(傘下) under the umbrella of
• 昨天下午 yesterday afternoon
• 殿下 your highness
• 一下 one time; once; for a short time
• 澄清天下 to pacify the land
• 一较高下(一較高下) to compete against; to measure oneself against; to go head to head (see who is best)
• 下颔骨(下頷骨) lower jawbone; mandible
• 下世 to die; future incarnation; next life; to be born; to come into the world; future generation

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南岳下 、 上品下生 、 五下结

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