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下午

xià wǔ

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word Measure word 个

下午 (xià wǔ) means "afternoon". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.

What 下午 means

1. afternoon
2. p.m.

The characters in 下午

• 下xiàdown; downwards; below
• 午wǔ7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of…

Example sentences

• 下午好。
  Good afternoon.
• 下午四点。
  At four o'clock in the afternoon.
• 下午我不在家。
  I'll be absent from home in the afternoon.
• 你下午有空吗?
  Are you free in the afternoon?
• 您下午做啥呢？
  So what will you do in the afternoon?
• 我下午去卖车。
  I'm going to go sell my car this afternoon.

Words starting with 下午

• 下午好xià wǔ hǎo(greeting) good afternoon
• 下午茶xià wǔ cháafternoon tea (light afternoon meal, typically pastries with tea or coffee)

Where 下午 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Time Expressions (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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