Dictionary › 下行

下行

xià xíng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

下行 (xià xíng) means "(of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital); (of river boats) to travel downstream; to issue (a document) to lower bur". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 下行 means

1. (of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital)
2. (of river boats) to travel downstream
3. to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels
4. (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom

The characters in 下行

• 下xiàdown; downwards; below
• 行xíng(bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit…

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xià xíng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.