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

• 耳下腺 subauricular gland; parotid gland (salivary gland in the cheek)
• 下眼睑(下眼瞼) lower eyelid
• 胃下垂 gastroptosis
• 富甲天下 exceedingly wealthy
• 自下而上 bottom-up
• 地下街 underground market
• 天下豪富 rich and powerful people throughout the land
• 舍得一身剐，敢把皇帝拉下马(捨得一身剮，敢把皇帝拉下馬) one who does not fear the death of thousand cuts will dare to unhorse the emperor
• 江河日下 rivers pour away by the day; deteriorating each day
• 上下班时间(上下班時間) rush hour
• 左下 lower left
• 下酒菜 a dish that goes well with alcoholic drinks
• 三下五除二 three, set five remove two (abacus rule); efficiently; quickly and easily
• 地下铁路(地下鐵路) subway
• 下劣 base; mean; despicable
• 急转直下(急轉直下) to develop rapidly after abrupt turn; dramatic change
• 在地下 underground
• 掉下 to drop down; to fall
• 天下无双(天下無雙) there is only one under heaven; unique
• 治天下 to rule everything under Heaven
• 下单(下單) to place an order; to order; an order (of goods)
• 下诏(下詔) to hand down an imperial edict
• 下星期(下星期) next week
• 言下之意 implication
• 按下 press downwards
• 腋下 underarm; armpit
• 下边儿(下邊兒) unerneath
• 低首下心 to be fawningly submissive
• 乡下习气(鄉下習氣) country manners; provincialism
• 按下葫芦浮起瓢(按下葫蘆浮起瓢) solve one problem only to find another cropping up
• 布下 to arrange; to lay out
• 下水礼(下水禮) launching ceremony
• 秀才不出门，能知天下事(秀才不出門，能知天下事) a learned person need not leave his home to know what's going on in the world
• 瞒上欺下(瞞上欺下) to deceive one's superiors and bully one's subordinates
• 下半 second half
• 下画线(下畫線) underline
• 下山 (of the sun) to set
• 皮层下失语症(皮層下失語症) subcortical aphasia
• 跳下 to jump down
• 下片 to stop screening a movie; to end the run of a movie
• 下江 to flow downriver ; lower reaches of the Yangtze ; Jiangsu
• 备下(備下) to prepare; to arrange
• 接下 continuing on
• 旗下 under the banner of ; bannerman
• 独步天下(獨步天下) unrivaled in the land
• 立下 to create; to establish ; to attack immediately
• 下一代 the next generation
• 落下 to fall; to drop; to land (of projectile)
• 历代志下(歷代志下) Second book of Chronicles
• 下毒 to put poison in; to poison

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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