下
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Down, below, under: the position lower than something. After a noun it marks what is underneath: 床下 'under the bed'. Before 个 and a time word it means 'next': 下个星期 'next week', the opposite of 上个星期. As a verb it means to go down or get off (下车), and it appears in 下课, 下班 and 下雨 'to rain'.
Dưới, phía dưới, bên dưới một vật. Sau danh từ: 床下 (dưới gầm giường). Trước 个 và từ chỉ thời gian thì nghĩa là “sau, tới”: 下个星期 (tuần sau), ngược với 上个星期 (tuần trước). Làm động từ: xuống (下车: xuống xe), và có trong 下课 (tan học), 下班 (tan làm), 下雨 (mưa).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “下” mean?
Down, below, under: the position lower than something. After a noun it marks what is underneath: 床下 'under the bed'. Before 个 and a time word it means 'next': 下个星期 'next week', the opposite of 上个星期. As a verb it means to go down or get off (下车), and it appears in 下课, 下班 and 下雨 'to rain'.
Is “下” formal or informal?
下 is generally neutral.