下 xià in a sentence
Below (under - down - fall - next - lower - finish)
下 (xià) means Below (under - down - fall - next - lower - finish). Below are 24 of the 97 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
From the graded readers
台 下 有人笑了。
tái xià yǒurén xiào le / liǎo / liào.
Someone in the audience laughed.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
我们坐 下 ，看菜单。
wǒmen zuòxia, kàn / kān càidān.
We sat down and looked at the menu.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · At the Restaurant
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
我一 下 子说不出话来。
wǒ yíxiàzi shuō bùchū huà lái.
For a moment I couldn't say anything.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
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
下 雨了，我们都没有伞。
xiàyǔ le / liǎo / liào, wǒmen dōu méiyǒu sǎn.
It started to rain, and none of us had an umbrella.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · The Weather Today
From the travel phrasebook
下 批要注意。
Xià pī yào zhùyì.
The next batch needs care.
Travel phrasebook · Quality problems and claims
我先介绍一 下 。
Wǒ xiān jièshào yíxià.
Let me introduce this first.
Travel phrasebook · Meetings and introductions
能不能写 下 来？
Néng bu néng xiě xiàlái?
Could you write that down?
Travel phrasebook · Meetings and introductions
From the grammar library
请说 下 去。
Qǐng shuō xiàqù.
Please carry on.
Grammar library · HSK 3 · Directional complements — 上来, 下去, 出来
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
下 appears in 97 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 下
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 下
How is 下 used in a sentence?
This page shows 97 sentences using 下 (xià, "Below (under - down - fall - next - lower - finish)"), 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.
Why do some sentences show 下 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 下 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 下 an HSK word?
Yes — 下 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?
The dictionary page for 下 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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