下午

下午 xiàwǔ in a sentence

Afternoon

Full dictionary entry HSK 1 32 sentences

下午 (xiàwǔ) means Afternoon. Below are 24 of the 32 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

我 下午 回家。

Wǒ xiàwǔ huí jiā.

I am going home in the afternoon.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 回

我 下午 去理发。

Wǒ xiàwǔ qù lǐfà.

I am going for a haircut this afternoon.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 理发

张大夫 下午 出诊。

Zhāng dàifu xiàwǔ chūzhěn.

Doctor Zhang sees patients in the afternoon.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 大夫

咱们 下午 再商量。

Zánmen xiàwǔ zài shāngliang.

Let us talk it over again this afternoon.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 咱们

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

下午 下了一场大雨。

Xiàwǔ xià le yì chǎng dàyǔ.

There was a heavy rain in the afternoon.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 场

我们 下午 去逛街吧。

Wǒmen xiàwǔ qù guàng jiē ba.

Let us go window shopping this afternoon.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 逛

比赛将在 下午 进行。

Bǐsài jiāng zài xiàwǔ jìnxíng.

The match will take place in the afternoon.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 进行

这趟车 下午 三点开。

Zhè tàng chē xiàwǔ sān diǎn kāi.

This train leaves at three in the afternoon.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 趟

下午 我们吃点心吧。

Xiàwǔ wǒmen chī diǎnxin ba.

Let us have some refreshments this afternoon.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 点心

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

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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

下午 appears in 32 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.

Questions about 下午

How is 下午 used in a sentence?

This page shows 32 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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