HanTrace

之下

zhīxià
nounHSK 5

“Under” in Chinese is 之下 (zhīxià).

Meaning

  • under
  • beneath
  • less than

Example

太阳之下无新事。

Nothing new under the sun.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

zhīHSK 43 strokes(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5])xiàHSK 13 strokesdown

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