下

down, under; next (下周 next week)

No. 55 most used · 0.34% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 293.

How it's built

A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.

A way to remember it

A mark below the line: down. The opposite of 上.

Words

• 一下

  yí xià

  (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly
• 下来

  xià lai

  to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.)
• 下去

  xià qù

  to go down; to descend; to go on
• 留下

  liú xià

  to leave behind; to stay behind; to remain
• 坐下

  zuò xia

  to sit down
• 放下

  fàng xià

  to lay down; to put down; to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside; to lower (the blinds etc)

Sentences

• 下一站是什么地方？

  xià yí zhàn shì shén me dì fāng

  What's the next station?
• 能到这里来一下吗。

  néng dào zhè lǐ lái yí xià ma

  Would you come here a moment?
• 不会再有下次了。

  bú huì zài yǒu xià cì le

  I will not do it again.
• 以下是我们怎么做的。

  yǐ xià shì wǒ men zěn me zuò de

  Here's how we do it.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.