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下载

xià zǎi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 下載

下载 (xià zǎi) means "to download". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 下载 means

1. to download
2. also pr. xià zài

The characters in 下载

• 下xiàdown; downwards; below
• 载zǎito record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. zài

Example sentences

• 下载。
  Download.
• 我在下载这份网络档案。
  I'm downloading this internet archive.
• 我写的漫画下载器本周日就发布。
  Wǒ xiě de mànhuà xiàzǎi qì běn Zhōurì jiù fābù.
  The comic downloader that I wrote will be released this Sunday.
• 开始下载时，请点击“保存”按钮。
  When you begin downloading, please press the "Save" button.
• 我编写的漫画下载器将于本周日发布。
  The comic downloader that I wrote will be released this Sunday.
• 假如你没有这个程序，你现在就可以去下载。
  Jiǎrú nǐ méiyǒu zhège chéngxù, nǐ xiànzài jiù kěyǐ qù xiàzǎi.
  If you don't have this software, you can download it now.

Sounds the same

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

• 下崽(of animals) to give birth; to foal, to whelp etc

Where 下载 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Technology & Digital Tools (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xià zǎi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.