It's snowing.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
下雪
to snow
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to snow
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 下雪 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 下雪 appears in 64 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
It's snowy today.
It's snowing.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 下雪.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 下雪.
Directly before
- 会下雪13
- 开始下雪7
- 在下雪7
- 不下雪7
- 要下雪5
Directly after
- 下雪了18
- 下雪吗2
- 下雪呢2
- 下雪的2
- 下雪很多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 下雪
What does 下雪 mean in Chinese?
下雪 (xiàxuě) means to snow.
How do you pronounce 下雪?
下雪 is pronounced xiàxuě.
Is 下雪 an HSK word?
下雪 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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