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Definition
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under
小猫在桌子下面。The kitten is under the table.
- graphic component (often seen in other characters)
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down
今天下雨了。It's raining today.
- downward
- to fall
- to get off
- to descend
- to leave
- to issue
- to deliver
- to apply
- to use
- below
- lower (in quality, rank...)
- next (week...)
- latter
- second
Compounds (10)
to block; to be stuck; to be wedged; customs station; a clip; a fastener; a checkpost; Taiwan pr. [ka3]
to scare; to intimidate; to threaten; (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut; (interjection showing astonishment)
Related words (399)
to die; future incarnation; next life; to be born; to come into the world; future generation
to go off the stage; to fall from position of prestige; to step down (from office etc); to disentangle oneself; to get off the hook
to leave (the stage, an exam room, the playing field etc); to take part in some activity; to take an examination (in the imperial examination system)
lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy)
to delegate; to decentralize; to demote a party cadre to work on the shop floor or in the countryside
underneath; below; the underside; world of mortals; to descend to the world of mortals (of Gods)
to come down; (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)
downstream; to go into the water; to put into water; to launch (a ship); (fig.) to fall into bad ways; to lead astray; to go to pot
to go out to sea; to enter the sea (to swim etc); (fig.) to take the plunge (e.g. leave a secure job, or enter prostitution etc)
to get off work; to finish work; to knock off; to clock off (work); to leave the office for the day; to leave work for the day
(of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital); (of river boats) to travel downstream; to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels; (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom
to transmit down (a chain of command); to pass down (to lower level); to issue; to send through
to sail West (from China); refers to Zhenghe's 15th century expeditions to the Western Pacific
to get off a plane; to get off an airplane; to get off the airplane; to deplane; to disembark; to alight from a plane; to get off the plane
one time; once; in a (short) while; a while; all at once; all of a sudden; (used after a verb) give it a go; to do (something for a bit, to give it a try)
as many as; unable to capture (a city...); no less than; to be not less than (a certain quantity, amount etc)
less (than); below; under; hereafter; that level or lower; that amount or less; (the) following
under one's control or administration; subordinates; (money etc) on hand; sb's financial means; to take action
to take off; to remove (one's hat, a door from its hinges etc); to pick (a piece of fruit from a tree etc); (sports) to pick off (a rebound etc)
at the knee (in reference to children); (salutation used in letters to parents or grandparents)
(lit.) to pull sb into the water; to involve sb in a messy business; to get sb into trouble
to compete against; to measure oneself against; to go head to head (see who is best)
to work in the fields (esp. young school-leavers); forced agricultural experience for city intellectuals
the entire nation; the whole country, from the leadership to the rank and file
to press (on); to keep (at it); to persevere; to stick (to) (with something); to persist (onwards); to insist (on)
(lit.) to pull sb into the water; (fig.) to involve sb in a messy business; to get sb into trouble
abbr. for 瓜田不納履，李下不整冠|瓜田不纳履，李下不整冠[gua1 tian2 bu4 na4 lu:3 , li3 xia4 bu4 zheng3 guan1]
to step down gracefully (humble expression); to concede defeat; to play second fiddle
(category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)
strike first and gain the upper hand (idiom, martial arts term); Making the first move is an advantage.
drive-by download (a form of malware booby-trap); silent drive-by download
(expr.) hold the feudal overlord and you control the whole country
(lit.) the man has gold under his knees; fig. a man who does not easily kneel in front of others (owing to pride or moral integrity)
to fall short of the best but be better than the worst; can pass muster
Idioms (42)
to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint; (fig.) conspiring to defraud
to run everything (idiom); to monopolize the whole business; not allow anyone else to have a look in
(lit.) to paint holding two brushes (idiom); fig. to work on two tasks at the same time; to attack one problem from two angles at the same time
to lodge under another person's roof (idiom); to live relying on sb else's charity
(lit.) to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it; to take appropriate steps
to live high and look down (idiom); to overlook; to tower above; to occupy the high ground; (fig.) arrogance based on one's social position
(lit.) start off leniently (idiom); please do not be too strict with me; Do not judge me too harshly.; Look favorably on my humble efforts.
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition; forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
to throw stones at sb who fell down a well (idiom); to hit a person who is down
(lit.) amidst the flowers under the moonlight (idiom); (fig.) romantic surroundings
rivers pour away by the day (idiom); going from bad to worse; deteriorating day by day
to throw stones at sb who fell down a well (idiom); to hit a person who is down
if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway
(lit.) knives rain down from the sky (idiom); (fig.) (even if) the sky crumbles
(lit.) above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom); (fig.) to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children; sandwich generation
(dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom); not to treat everyone equally favorably
(lit.) If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked (idiom); fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices
(lit.) when the nest is upset no egg is left intact (idiom); (fig.) when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed
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