Read Edit View history 下台 xiàtái HSK7 to leave office Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 下台 下臺 xià//tái to leave office verb + noun to fall from power; to lose a position or leave office 他没有说他为什么要下台。 tā méiyǒu shuō tā wèishénme yào xià tái. He did not say why he was stepping down. to step down to walk off a stage or platform to get off the hook to get out of a predicament or save face after being put on the spot; to disentangle oneself from an embarrassing situation Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 3.34 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 6.21 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 7 Cross-References Antonym 上台 shàngtáiSynonym 下台阶 xiàtáijiē Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
下台 下臺 xià//tái to leave office verb + noun to fall from power; to lose a position or leave office 他没有说他为什么要下台。 tā méiyǒu shuō tā wèishénme yào xià tái. He did not say why he was stepping down. to step down to walk off a stage or platform to get off the hook to get out of a predicament or save face after being put on the spot; to disentangle oneself from an embarrassing situation Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 3.34 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 6.21 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 7 Cross-References Antonym 上台 shàngtáiSynonym 下台阶 xiàtáijiē Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)