下午 (xiàwǔ) means Afternoon. Below are 17 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
我 下午 去学校。
Wǒ xiàwǔ qù xuéxiào.
I am going to school in the afternoon.
Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 下午
下午 我去朋友家玩。
Xiàwǔ wǒ qù péngyou jiā wán.
This afternoon I'm going to a friend's place to hang out.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 玩
弟弟每天 下午 打篮球。
Dìdi měi tiān xiàwǔ dǎ lánqiú.
My younger brother plays basketball every afternoon.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 打篮球
下午 我们去踢足球吧。
Xiàwǔ wǒmen qù tī zúqiú ba.
Let's go play football this afternoon.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 踢足球
下午 三点有一个会议。
Xiàwǔ sān diǎn yǒu yí gè huìyì.
There is a meeting at three this afternoon.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 会议
我 下午 去图书馆看书。
Wǒ xiàwǔ qù túshūguǎn kàn shū.
I'm going to the library to read this afternoon.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 图书馆
这件事 下午 就能完成。
Zhè jiàn shì xiàwǔ jiù néng wánchéng.
This can be finished by the afternoon.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 完成
From the graded readers
那天 下午 我很不高兴。
nà / nèi tiānxià wǔ wǒ hěn bù gāoxìng.
I felt low all that afternoon.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · An Anniversary Surprise
下午 三点，天气不好了。
xiàwǔ sān diǎn, tiānqì bùhǎo le / liǎo / liào.
At three in the afternoon the weather turned.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · The Weather Today
一个 下午 就这样过去了。
yīgè xiàwǔ jiù zhèyàng guòqù le / liǎo / liào.
A whole afternoon had gone, just like that.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend
那天 下午 ，我一共摔了十一次。
nà / nèi tiānxià wǔ, wǒ yīgòng shuāi le / liǎo / liào shíyī cì.
That afternoon I fell eleven times in all.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
那天 下午 ，我们楼的电梯坏了。
nà / nèi tiānxià wǔ, wǒmen lóu de / dì diàntī huàile.
That afternoon the lift in our building broke down.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
上午我学习汉语， 下午 我学习英语。
shàngwǔ wǒ xuéxí hànyǔ, xiàwǔ wǒ xuéxí yīngyǔ.
In the morning I study Chinese, and in the afternoon I study English.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Day
星期六 下午 ，妈妈让我去超市买东西。
xīngqīliù xiàwǔ, māma ràng wǒ qù chāo shì mǎi dōngxī.
On Saturday afternoon mum asked me to go to the supermarket.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
那天 下午 ，礼堂里坐了差不多三百个人。
nà / nèi tiānxià wǔ, lǐtáng lǐ zuò le / liǎo / liào chàbuduō sānbǎi gèrén.
That afternoon there were nearly three hundred people in the hall.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
From the grammar library
我们 下午 三点见。
Wǒmen xiàwǔ sān diǎn jiàn.
Let's meet at three this afternoon.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Where time words go
Questions about 下午
How is 下午 used in a sentence?
This page shows 17 sentences using 下午 (xiàwǔ, "Afternoon"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 下午 an HSK word?
Yes — 下午 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 下午?
The dictionary page for 下午 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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