Press the button.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
按下
to press down
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to press down
02
to press a button
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 按下 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 按下 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Push the button, please.
You have only to push the button.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 按下.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 按下.
Directly before
- 发现自己按下2
- 只要按下1
- 按钮按下1
Directly after
- 按下按钮3
- 按下了2
- 按下这个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 按下
What does 按下 mean in Chinese?
按下 (ànxià) means to press down.
How do you pronounce 按下?
按下 is pronounced ànxià.
Is 按下 an HSK word?
按下 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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