Pinyin: xià

below; under; down

Example sentence

狗在桌子下。

Gǒu zài zhuōzi xià.

The dog is under the table.

What 下 means

(xià) is a Chinese word meaning “below; under; down”. It belongs to the Places & Position topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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