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下xiàdown
一one · yī
卜divination · bǔ
Memory aidA short stroke below the line: down, below.
去qùto go
土earth · tǔ
厶private · sī
Memory aidPicture someone leaving the ground 土 behind with a bag 厶: to go.
How to write 下去
下 3 strokes · 去 5 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 下去 (xiàqù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
下去 (xiàqù) means “to go down” or “to descend”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it xiàqù: xià with a 4th tone, then qù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 下去 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xiaqu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 下去 from the suggestions. Typing xiaqu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
下去 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older 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). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
下xià4th tone, falling
