CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

下垂

xiàchuí

to droop

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to droop

to sag

to hang down

sagging

drooping

prolapse (medicine)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 下垂 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 下垂 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

知道吗？内科急救专家对于子宫下垂常用的应对方法是带上手套，把拳头深入阴道，然后用力将子宫向上推。但这个姿势在赶到医院前是改变不了了!zhī dào ma？ nèi kē jí jiù zhuān jiā duì yú zi gōng xià chuí cháng yòng de yìng duì fāng fǎ shì dài shàng shǒu tào， bǎ quán tou shēn rù yīn dào， rán hòu yòng lì jiāng zi gōng xiàng shàng tuī。 dàn zhè ge zī shì zài gǎn dào yī yuàn qián shì gǎi biàn bù liǎo le!

Did you know that the proper EMT response to a prolapsed uterus is to make a gloved fist and shove the uterus and your fist itself up the vagina? Also, once you've done that, you're stuck in that position until you get to the hospital!

稻穗结得越饱满，越会往下垂，一个人越有成就，就要越有谦冲的胸襟。dào suì jié dé yuè bǎo mǎn， yuè huì wǎng xià chuí， yí gè rén yuè yǒu chéng jiù， jiù yào yuè yǒu qiān chōng de xiōng jīn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 下垂.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 下垂.

Directly before

往下垂1
子宫下垂1

Directly after

下垂常用1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 下垂

What does 下垂 mean in Chinese?

下垂 (xiàchuí) means to droop.

How do you pronounce 下垂?

下垂 is pronounced xiàchuí.

Is 下垂 an HSK word?

下垂 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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