down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action

afternoon / CL: 個｜个 / p.m.

to rain

to download / also pr. [xia4 zai4]

subordinate / underling

to come down / (completed action marker) / (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.) / (indicates continuation from the past towards us) / to be harvested (of crops) / to be over (of a period of time) / to go among the masses (said of leaders)

to go down to the fields / to get up from bed / to leave one's sickbed / to be born

lower house (of parliament)

below / under / next / the following / also pr. [xia4 mian5]

to go down a hill / (of the sun or moon) to set

lower bound

to go down / to descend / to go on / to continue / (of a servant) to withdraw

underneath / below / the underside / world of mortals / to descend to the world of mortals (of gods)

next time

following

to decline / to drop / to fall / to go down / to decrease

afternoon tea (light afternoon meal, typically pastries with tea or coffee)

downstream / to go into the water / to put into water / to launch (a ship) / fig. to fall into bad ways / to lead astray / to go to pot

offal / viscera / tripe

to get off or out of (a bus, train, car etc)

next page

lower reaches (of a river) / lower level / lower echelon / downstream

last third of the month

chin / CL: 個｜个

to finish work / to get off work

to droop / to sag / to hang down / sagging / drooping / prolapse (medicine)

unaccounted / unknown whereabouts

to give an order / to command

next chapter / next time

lower limbs

leeward / downwind / disadvantageous position / to concede or give way in an argument

lower part of the body / genitalia / trousers

(of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital) / (of river boats) to travel downstream / to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels / (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom

the next step

to leave (the stage, an exam room, the playing field etc) / to take part in some activity / to take an examination (in the imperial examination system)

the end / to conclude

to go offline / (of a product) to roll off the assembly line / downline (person below oneself in a pyramid scheme)

underlayer / lower class / lower strata / substrate

to snow

lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene

next month

second half of the year

to kneel / to go down on one's knees

next week

subconscious mind

similarly hereinafter

to boil noodles

to go out to sea / to enter the sea (to swim etc) / (fig.) to take the plunge (e.g. leave a secure job, or enter prostitution etc)

see 下工夫

to pour / to pour down (of rain) / to lay a bet

to play chess

downhill

to stay (at a hotel etc during a trip)

to descend to the world (of immortals)

to demote / to pass down to a lower unit

to adjust downwards / to lower (prices, wages etc)

lower lip

to make a firm resolution

to cast a fishing net / (computing) to go offline

to attack murderously / to strike treacherously

(of animals) to give birth / to foal, to whelp etc

to go to the countryside

sewer

to go to the kitchen (to prepare a meal) / to cook

to lay eggs

last quarter, aka third quarter (phase of the moon)

mandible (lower jaw)

to finish class / to get out of class / (fig.) (esp. of a sports coach) to be dismissed / to be fired

to transmit to lower levels; to issue (a command, decree etc)

to go downstairs

to be appropriate to have with alcohol / to down one's drink

to promote lactation (TCM) / (coll.) underboob

(of sales, prices etc) to fall / to drop / decline / slump

not to be repeated / not to be taken as a precedent / just this once

next office holder / next to serve

player whose turn comes next (in a game) / next one / my humble home

to sink down

under / the underside / below

to start / to put one's hand to / to set about / the seat to the right of the main guest

Xiaguan district of Nanjing City 南京市 in Jiangsu 江蘇｜江苏

to bury / to inter

signature on letter / name of donor

lower body / euphemism for genitals / root and stem of plants

(of a woman) to marry a man of lower social status / to marry down

to prescribe medicine / to poison / to slip a drug (into sb's drink etc)

to subside / subsidence

downward fluctuation (of prices etc)

offspring / future generations / younger generation of a family / junior members of a group

the next life

to take off costume and makeup / bottom garment (trousers etc)

(TCM) lower burner, the part of the body within the pelvic cavity (below the navel, including the kidneys, bladder and intestines)

contemptible / disgusting

lower jaw / mandible

(gymnastics) to do a bridge / to do a crab

a dish that goes well with alcoholic drinks

next week

to determine / to resolve

lower jaw / mandible

humble / lowly / depraved / contemptible

lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy)