Did you make any New Year's resolutions?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
许下
to make a promise
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to make a promise
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 许下 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 许下 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Children often send letters to Santa with their wishes.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 许下.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 许下.
Directly before
- 有没有许下1
Directly after
- 许下什1
- 许下自己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 许下
What does 许下 mean in Chinese?
许下 (xǔxià) means to make a promise.
How do you pronounce 许下?
许下 is pronounced xǔxià.
Is 许下 an HSK word?
许下 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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