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下山

xià shān

2-character word

What 下山 means

1. to go down a hill
2. (of the sun or moon) to set

The characters in 下山

• 下xiàdown; downwards; below
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on

Example sentences

• 我们跑下山。
  We ran down the hill.
• 太阳下山了。
  The sun is going down.
• 太阳刚下山。
  The sun has just sunk below the horizon.
• 汤姆走下山坡。
  Tom went down the hill.
• 太阳都要下山了。
  Tàiyang dōu yào xiàshān le.
  The sun is about to set.