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下嫁

xià jià

2-character word

What 下嫁 means

1. (of a woman) to marry a man of lower social status
2. to marry down

The characters in 下嫁

• 下xiàdown; downwards; below
• 嫁jià(of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc)

Sounds the same

Read xià jià, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 下架to take down from the shelves (e.g. a contaminated product)

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