HSK 6 · Verbs

降临 jiànglín “to arrive” in Chinese

Traditional 降臨

What 降临 means

  1. to arrive
  2. to befall
  3. to descend
  4. to come

How to say 降临

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale降jiàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale临lín2nd tone, rising

降临 in a sentence

  1. 夜幕降临了！

    Yèmù jiànglín le!

    Night has fallen!

    Sentence #718349 from Tatoeba

  2. 不幸降临到他的头上。

    Búxìng jiànglín dào tā de tóu shang.

    Misfortune befell him.

    Sentence #347712 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 当贫穷降临在门口，爱从窗外飞走。

    Dāng pínqióng jiànglín zài ménkǒu, ài cóng chuāng wài fēizǒu.

    When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.

    Sentence #9956714 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 降临 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 降 (jiàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
降jiàngto drop
  • 阝placeMeaning part
  • 夅to descend · jiàngSound part

阝 hints at the meaning (place); 夅 (jiàng) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiàng.

The character 临 (lín) drawn as one shape
临línto face

临 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 降临

降 8 strokes · 临 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

降临 (jiànglín) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 降临 (jiànglín). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 降临

Words with 降

降落jiàngluò · to descend降低jiàngdī · to reduce投降tóuxiáng · to surrender

Words with 临

光临guānglín · (formal) to honour with one’s presence面临miànlín · to face临时línshí · temporary临床línchuáng · clinical濒临bīnlín · to be on the verge of

More words: Common Verbs

加剧jiājù · to intensify溅jiàn · to splash拣jiǎn · to pick将就jiāngjiu · to make do简化jiǎnhuà · to simplify监视jiānshì · to monitor践踏jiàntà · to trample检验jiǎnyàn · to inspect

FAQs

降临 (jiànglín) means “to arrive” or “to befall”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jiànglín: jiàng with a 4th tone, then lín with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 降临 is written 降臨. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jianglin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 降临 from the suggestions. Typing jianglin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
降临 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.