下午

Pinyin: xià wǔ

afternoon

Example sentence

下午我们看电影。

Xiàwǔ wǒmen kàn diànyǐng.

In the afternoon we watch a movie.

What 下午 means

下午 (xià wǔ) is an Chinese word meaning “afternoon”. It belongs to the Time topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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