VocabularyHSK 3 · core

下午

xiàwǔ

afternoon

Part of speech · noun

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Examples

  1. 下午开会。
    Meeting in the afternoon.
  2. 下午三点见。
    See you at 3 PM.

Collocations

下午好今天下午到下午

Mnemonic

下午 xiàwǔ "afternoon" — 下 (below/after) + 午 (noon) → "after noon". Korean/Japanese 午後 (ohu / gogo) reverses order with 後 instead of 下.

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