Character Details
| afternoon | Ascii: 21916 | w535 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 下午 | xiàwǔ | tsee:ah-oo | 4+3 | 上 (above) + 午 (noon) | 下午 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Good afternoon | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| top‑bottom; time word | 下 (below) + 午 (noon) | ||||||||||
| The time below noon — afternoon. | |||||||||||