下午
xià wǔ
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The afternoon: the part of the day from noon until evening. 下午三点 is three in the afternoon. With 上午 'morning' it splits the day at noon (午): 上 'before', 下 'after'.
Buổi chiều: từ sau trưa cho đến tối. 下午三点 là ba giờ chiều; tiếng Trung nói buổi trước rồi mới đến giờ, ngược với tiếng Việt. Cùng với 上午 (buổi sáng), nó chia ngày ở giờ ngọ (午): 上 là trước, 下 là sau.
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 “下午” mean?
The afternoon: the part of the day from noon until evening. 下午三点 is three in the afternoon. With 上午 'morning' it splits the day at noon (午): 上 'before', 下 'after'. Literally: after noon
Is “下午” formal or informal?
下午 is generally neutral.