下流
xià liú
Pinyin

Definition

下流
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xià liú
  1. lower course of a river
  2. low-class
  3. mean and lowly
  4. vulgar
  5. obscene

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

一下
yī xià
  1. 1 (used after a verb) give it a go
  2. 2 to do (sth for a bit to give it a try)
  3. 3 one time
  4. 4 once
  5. 5 in a while
  6. 6 all of a sudden
  7. 7 all at once
下
xià
  1. 1 down
  2. 2 downwards
  3. 3 below
  4. 4 lower
  5. 5 later
  6. 6 next (week etc)
  7. 7 second (of two parts)
  8. 8 to decline
  9. 9 to go down
  10. 10 to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc)
  11. 11 measure word to show the frequency of an action
下午
xià wǔ
  1. 1 afternoon
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
  3. 3 p.m.
下载
xià zǎi
  1. 1 to download
  2. 2 also pr. [xià zài]
天下
tiān xià
  1. 1 land under heaven
  2. 2 the whole world
  3. 3 the whole of China
  4. 4 realm
  5. 5 rule

Idioms (20)

三下两下
sān xià liǎng xià
  1. 1 quickly and effortlessly (idiom)
上下其手
shàng xià qí shǒu
  1. 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
  2. 2 fig. conspiring to defraud
上有天堂，下有苏杭
shàng yǒu tiān táng , xià yǒu Sū Háng
  1. 1 lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭|苏杭[Sū Háng] below (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven
上有政策，下有对策
shàng yǒu zhèng cè , xià yǒu duì cè
  1. 1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)
上有老下有小
shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo
  1. 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
  3. 3 sandwich generation

Sample Sentences

你这个下流的东西！我说的是，我看过一段战争场面，相当暴力，口味很重。
nǐ zhè ge xiàliú de dōngxi ！wǒ shuō de shì ，wǒ kàn guò yī duàn zhànzhēng chǎngmiàn ，xiāngdāng bàolì ，kǒuwèi hěn zhòng 。
You dirty perve! What I was referring to was a battle scene that I saw. It was very violent and intense.
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啊？这么下流。
ǎ ？zhème xiàliú 。
Huh? How uncouth.
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把“下楼”读成了“下流”。
bǎ “xiàlóu ”dú chéng le “xiàliú ”。
I read "xia lou [go downstairs]" as "xia liu [vulgar, obscene]."
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