Character Details
| below; down; next; after | Ascii: 35273 | w64 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 下 | xià | tsee:ah | 4 | 一 (horizontal) + 丨 (vertical) → below; down | 下 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Now the magic wand is mysteriously floating below the ceiling. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - below, under, down, next (relating to time) | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Are you free next Tuesday? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 75 - 一 | yī | ONE | one, horizontal line | single horizontal stroke | 一 丁 七 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 一 (horizontal) + 丨 (vertical) → below; down | 一 (line) | 下 (self‑phonetic) | semantic: position below line | ||||||||