The sun has just sunk below the horizon.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
下山
to go down a hill
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to go down a hill
02
(of the sun or moon) to set
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 下山 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 下山 appears in 10 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
We ran down the hill.
The sun is going down.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 下山.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 下山.
Directly before
- 太阳下山2
- 就下山1
- 跑下山1
- 要下山1
- 先下山1
Directly after
- 下山了4
- 下山比1
- 下山吧1
- 下山来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 下山
What does 下山 mean in Chinese?
下山 (xiàshān) means to go down a hill.
How do you pronounce 下山?
下山 is pronounced xiàshān.
Is 下山 an HSK word?
下山 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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