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下 — stroke order
Watch how to write 下 (xià) stroke by stroke. 下 has 3 strokes and means “below”. It appears in common words such as 一下 (give it a go) and 下載 (to download). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 下
The most common words that use 下 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
一下yīxiàgive it a go下載xiàzǎito download天下tiānxiàland under heaven下午xiàwǔafternoon下來xiàlaito come down下去xiàquto go down
How 下 is written
- Radical
- 一
- Components
- 一 ＋ 卜
- Formation
- Ideographic — One stroke under another; compare 上 (above).