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下雨

xià yǔ

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word

下雨 (xià yǔ) means "to rain". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.

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.

• 夏禹see 大禹

Where 下雨 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Modal Verbs and Core Predicates (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 1 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xià yǔ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.