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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
之下
under
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
under
02
beneath
03
less than
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 之下 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 之下 appears in 21 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
What are you doing right now?
The bridge crashed under the pressure.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 之下.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 之下.
Directly before
- 情况之下2
- 要求之下1
- 你之下1
- 统治之下1
- 压力之下1
Directly after
- 之下在1
- 之下失败1
- 之下工作1
- 之下倒塌1
- 之下行进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 之下
What does 之下 mean in Chinese?
之下 (zhīxià) means under.
How do you pronounce 之下?
之下 is pronounced zhīxià.
Is 之下 an HSK word?
之下 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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