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  *下* | 下* | *下
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
HSK 1
to finish work; to get off work / next service (train, bus etc)
HSK 1
afternoon / CL: 個|个 / p.m.
HSK 1
next time
HSK 1
to get off or out of (a bus, train, car etc)
HSK 1
to rain
HSK 1
to finish class / to get out of class / (fig.) (esp. of a sports coach) to be dismissed / to be fired
HSK 1
under / the underside / below
HSK 1
next week
HSK 2
to snow
HSK 2
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)
HSK 3
to go down / to descend / to go on / to continue / (of a servant) to withdraw
HSK 3
below / under / next / the following / also pr. [xia4 mian5]
HSK 3
to boil noodles
HSK 3
to download / also pr. [xia4zai4]
HSK 4
to go downstairs
HSK 4
next month
HSK 4
to decline / to drop / to fall / to go down / to decrease
HSK 4
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)
HSK 7-9
to go off the stage / to fall from position of prestige / to step down (from office etc) / to disentangle oneself / to get off the hook
HSK 7-9
to fall / to tumble
HSK 7-9
to give an order; to issue an order
HSK 7-9
subconscious mind
HSK 7-9
to start / to put one's hand to / to set about / the seat to the right of the main guest
HSK 7-9
to adjust downwards / to lower (prices, wages etc)
HSK 7-9
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)
HSK 7-9
to go down a hill / (of the sun or moon) to set
HSK 7-9
to play chess
HSK 7-9
to determine / to resolve
HSK 7-9
lower reaches (of a river) / lower level / lower echelon / downstream
HSK 7-9
last third of the month
HSK 7-9
whereabouts / to drop / to fall
HSK 7-9
(of objects) to fall / to drop / to droop / (medicine) to experience tenesmus
HSK 7-9
low ranking / low level / underclass / subordinate
HSK 7-9
(of a guard, sentry etc) to come off duty / (of a worker) be to laid off
HSK 7-9
variant of 下工夫
HSK 7-9
next period (week, month or quarter etc)
HSK 7-9
the next generation
HSK 7-9
to go to the countryside
HSK 7-9
subordinate / underling
HSK 7-9
next page
afternoon tea (light afternoon meal, typically pastries with tea or coffee)
to die / future incarnation / next life / to be born / to come into the world / future generation
leeward / downwind / disadvantageous position / to concede or give way in an argument
to revise downward
next month
(greeting) good afternoon
(TCM) lower burner, the part of the body within the pelvic cavity (below the navel, including the kidneys, bladder and intestines)
sewer
lower eyelid
Member of Parliament (MP) (UK Politics)
the end / to conclude
hypothalamus (anatomy)
lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene
second half of the year
to sail west (from China) (used in reference to the 15th century voyages of Zheng He 鄭和|郑和 to regions bordering the Indian Ocean)
the next step
lower body / euphemism for genitals / root and stem of plants
to prescribe medicine / to drug; to poison
unaccounted / unknown whereabouts
next office holder / next to serve
chin
(old) servant / (dialect) children; grandchildren
downhill road / (fig.) downhill path
to make a firm resolution
to demote / to pass down to a lower unit
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
next chapter / next time
hem of a skirt / shirt tail
(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
to dismount from a horse / (fig.) to abandon (a project)
to consume (food or drink); to eat; to drink
lower part of the body / genitalia / trousers
underneath / below / the underside / world of mortals / to descend to the world of mortals (of gods)
to take off costume and makeup / bottom garment (trousers etc)
to go to the kitchen (to prepare a meal) / to cook
following
to droop / to sag / to hang down / sagging / drooping / prolapse (medicine)
(of sales, prices etc) to fall / to drop / decline / slump
(slang) (of a person or manner) off-putting / (slang) to feel put off
the next life
to kneel / to go down on one's knees
awkward / embarrassed / cannot be accomplished
to transmit to lower levels; to issue (a command, decree etc)
to put pen to paper
humble / lowly / depraved / contemptible
riffraff / scum / lowlife / despicable / inferior
lower bound
to eat one's rice with an accompanying dish (to make the rice more palatable) / (of a dish) to go well with rice
to hand down an imperial edict
not to be repeated / not to be taken as a precedent / just this once
to eat out / to eat at a restaurant
to send the betrothal gifts / (fig.) to conclude a marriage
to define
third quarter moon, aka last quarter moon
the lowest professions
lower chamber (of legislative body) / lower house / the House of Commons
(anatomy) hypothalamus (Tw)
chin / Taiwan pr. [xia4hai2]

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