大家开始倒数五秒。
Dàjiā kāishǐ dàoshǔ wǔ miǎo.
English
Everyone started counting down five seconds.
to count backwards; from the bottom
to count backwards (from 10 down to 0); to count down; from the bottom (lines on a page)
Every character draws itself stroke by stroke, then hands you the brush to trace it yourself.
Nice writing!
大家开始倒数五秒。
Dàjiā kāishǐ dàoshǔ wǔ miǎo.
Everyone started counting down five seconds.
他在班里成绩倒数。
Tā zài bān lǐ chéngjì dàoshǔ.
His grades rank at the bottom of the class.
Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.