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Mythic Mandarin

下去 (xià qù): meaning and stroke order

下去 (xià qù) means to go down, to descend, to go on, to continue, (of a servant) to withdraw.

下去

Simplified
下去
Traditional
下去 (same form)
Pinyin
xià qù

Stroke order of 下去

下

  • xià down; downwards
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

去

  • qù to go; to go to (a place)
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 下去

  1. xià qù
    • to go down
    • to descend
    • to go on
    • to continue
    • (of a servant) to withdraw

Radicals of the characters

下
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 3 strokes · 一 on top, 卜 below
去
Radical 厶 (Kangxi radical 28) · 5 strokes · 土 on top, 厶 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

下去 in our stories

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  • 沉香回到华山，打败了舅舅二郎神，然后举起神斧，用尽全身的力气向山劈下去。

    Chénxiāng huídào Huà Shān dǎbài le jiùjiu Èrláng Shén ránhòu jǔ qǐ shén fǔ yòngjìn quánshēn de lìqi xiàng shān pī xiàqu

    Chenxiang returned to Mount Hua, defeated his uncle Erlang Shen, then raised the axe and brought it down on the mountain with all his strength.

    From the story Splitting the mountain to save his mother HSK 5

  • 最后，宋岩实在看不下去了，小声告诉他：“在这儿，盘子里留一点儿，主人才知道你吃饱了。”

    zuìhòu Sòng Yán shízài kàn bú xiàqu le xiǎoshēng gàosu tā zài zhèr pánzi lǐ liú yìdiǎnr zhǔrén cái zhīdao nǐ chī bǎo le

    Finally Song Yan couldn't bear to watch any longer and whispered, "Here, you leave a little on the plate. That's how the host knows you're full."

    From the story The banquet that never ended HSK 6

  • 直到确定天地再也不会合上，这位精疲力尽的巨人才终于倒了下去。

    zhídào quèdìng tiān dì zài yě bú huì hé shàng zhè wèi jīngpí-lìjìn de jùrén cái zhōngyú dǎo le xiàqu

    Only when he was sure that heaven and earth would never close again did the exhausted giant finally fall.

    From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 下去

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).