We should sit down.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
坐下
to sit down
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to sit down
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 坐下 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 坐下 appears in 50 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Sit down! Don't stand up.
There was no choice but to sit and wait.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 坐下.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 坐下.
Directly before
- 想坐下5
- 她坐下4
- 一坐下3
- 可以坐下2
- 他坐下2
Directly after
- 坐下来14
- 坐下了4
- 坐下吧2
- 坐下就2
- 坐下等待2
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 坐下
What does 坐下 mean in Chinese?
坐下 (zuòxia) means to sit down.
How do you pronounce 坐下?
坐下 is pronounced zuòxia.
Is 坐下 an HSK word?
坐下 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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