下午

HSK 1#782 by frequencyradical 一

xià wǔ["t"]

afternoon; p.m.

Measure word: 个

Examples

下午好。

Good afternoon.

下午我不在家。

I'll be absent from home in the afternoon.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.