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降临

jiàng lín

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 降臨

降临 (jiàng lín) means "to descend; to arrive; to come". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 降临 means

1. to descend
2. to arrive
3. to come

The characters in 降临

• 降jiàngto drop; to fall; to come down
• 临línto face; to overlook; to arrive

Example sentences

• 夜幕降临了！
  Yèmùjiànglín le!
  Night has fallen!
• 不幸降临到他的头上。
  A misfortune befell him.
• 夜幕降临时，孩子们回家了。
  Yèmùjiànglín shí, háizimen huíjiā le.
  The children returned home at dusk.
• 当贫穷降临在门口，爱从窗外飞走。
  Dāng pínqióng jiànglín zài ménkǒu, ài cóng chuāng wài fēi zǒu.
  When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window.
• 我们在天上的父，愿人都尊你的命为圣。愿你的国降临。愿你的旨意行在地上如同行在天上。我们日用的饮食，今日赐给我们，免我们的债，如同我们免了人的债，不叫我们遇见试探，救我们脱离凶恶。
  Wǒmen zài tiānshàng de fù, yuàn rén dōu zūn nǐ de mìng wèi shèng. yuàn nǐ de guó jiànglín. yuàn nǐ de zhǐyì xíng zài dìshàng rútóng xíng zài tiānshàng. wǒmen rìyòng de yǐnshí, jīnrì cìgěi wǒmen, miǎn wǒmen de zhài, rútóng wǒmen miǎn le rén de zhài, bù jiào wǒmen yùjiàn shìtàn, jiù wǒmen tuōlí xiōng'è.
  Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
• 叶公子名叫高，十分喜爱龙，衣带钩上雕着龙，酒器上刻着龙，居室内的花纹图案也全都画着龙。天上的真龙听说这件事，便降临到人间，头探进窗户里，尾巴拖在厅堂中。叶公看见真龙，转身惊慌逃开，吓得魂飞魄散，脸色大变。由此可见，叶公并不是真的喜爱龙，他喜爱的只是那些像龙却并非真龙的东西。
  Lord Ye, whose given name was Gao, was extremely fond of dragons. Dragons were carved on his belt hooks and wine vessels, and all the patterns in his dwelling were painted with dragons. When the real dragon in heaven heard of this, it descended to the mortal world. It poked its head through the window and trailed its tail across the hall. At the sight of the creature, Lord Ye spun around and fled in terror. He was utterly panic-stricken and turned pale with fright. This shows that Lord Ye did not truly love dragons. What he adored was merely things that looked like dragons, not real ones.

Words starting with 降临

• 降临节Jiàng lín jiéAdvent (Christian period of 4 weeks before Christmas)

Words containing 降临

• 圣神降临Shèng shén jiàng línWhit Sunday (Christian Festival celebrating the Holy Spirit)
• 圣神降临周Shèng shén jiàng lín zhōuWhitsuntide
• 圣灵降临Shèng líng jiàng línPentecost
• 耶稣降临节Yē sū Jiàng lín jiéAdvent (Christian period of 4 weeks before Christmas)
• 夜幕降临yè mù jiàng línnightfall

Where 降临 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiàng–jiāo (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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