之下 (zhī xià) means “under; beneath; less than”. It is an HSK 5 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
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在压力之下他表现得很好。
Zài yālì zhī xià tā biǎoxiàn de hěn hǎo.
He performed well under pressure.
Updated: 2026-07-18