She was coming down the stairs.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
下楼
to go downstairs
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to go downstairs
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 下楼 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 下楼 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Mary went down to the kitchen.
I heard him go down the stairs.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 下楼.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 下楼.
Directly before
- 他下楼4
- 她下楼1
- 玛丽下楼1
- 我下楼1
- 扶梯下楼1
Directly after
- 下楼的2
- 下楼了1
- 下楼到1
- 下楼把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 下楼
What does 下楼 mean in Chinese?
下楼 (xiàlóu) means to go downstairs.
How do you pronounce 下楼?
下楼 is pronounced xiàlóu.
Is 下楼 an HSK word?
下楼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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