Put it down.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
放下
to lay down; to put down
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to lay down; to put down
02
to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside
03
to lower (the blinds etc)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 放下 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 放下 appears in 28 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Put your guns down.
Put your hands down!
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 放下.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 放下.
Directly before
- 汤姆放下4
- 武器放下2
- 她放下1
- 他放下1
- 好放下1
Directly after
- 放下了5
- 放下你3
- 放下手中1
- 放下所有1
- 放下你们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 放下
What does 放下 mean in Chinese?
放下 (fàngxià) means to lay down; to put down.
How do you pronounce 放下?
放下 is pronounced fàngxià.
Is 放下 an HSK word?
放下 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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