下来
Traditional form:
下來
Pinyin (reading):
xiàlai
Definitions:
- to come down
- (completed action marker)
- (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.)
- (indicates continuation from the past towards us)
- to be harvested (of crops)
- to be over (of a period of time)
- to go among the masses (said of leaders)
Characters:
- 下 - below, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
- 来 - to arrive, to come, to return; in the future, later on
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