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下雨

xià yǔ

HSK 1 2-character word

What 下雨 means

1. to rain

The characters in 下雨

• 下xiàdown; downwards; below
• 雨yǔrain

Example sentences

• 下雨了。
  It is raining.
• 在下雨。
  It is raining.
• 下雨吗？
  Is it raining?
• 又下雨了！
  It's raining again!
• 还在下雨。
  It's still raining.
• 要下雨了.
  It's about to rain.

Words containing 下雨

• 干打雷，不下雨gān dǎ léi , bù xià yǔall thunder but no rain (idiom); a lot of noise but no action
• 天要下雨，娘要嫁人tiān yào xià yǔ , niáng yào jià rén(lit.) the heavens will rain, and widowed mothers will remarry (saying)…

Sounds the same

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

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