下 — Chinese character

下

xià

below, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next

Pinyin: xià
Radical: 1 ⼀ (One)
Strokes: 3
Components: 一卜
Formation: ideographic — One stroke under another; compare 上 (above)
Japanese: 下 as a kanji

Common words with 下

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
一下	yī 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
以下	yǐ xià	that level or lower; that amount or less
下来 (下來)	xià lai	to come down; (completed action marker)
下载 (下載)	xià zǎi	to download; also pr. [xia4zai4]
下午	xià wǔ	afternoon; 个 (gè)
下去	xià qù	to go down; to descend
留下	liú xià	to leave behind; to stay behind
天下	tiān xià	land under heaven; the whole world
下面	xià miàn	below; under
下面 (下麵)	xià miàn	to boil noodles
之下	zhī xià	under; beneath
下降	xià jiàng	to decline; to drop

English words written with 下

下 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 81 · Analects 45 · Art of War 12 · I Ching 3 · Mencius 237 · Zhuangzi 412 · Great Learning 10 · Doctrine of the Mean 38

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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