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Kanji Detail for 降 - "to descend, to fall, to surrender"

降

  • Meaning

    降 means "to descend, to fall, to surrender."

    1. Descend - To come down; to go lower.

    2. Fall - To drop; rain or snow falling.

    3. Surrender - To yield; to submit.

  • Words using 降

    • 降りる おりる Listen to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to come down
    • 下降 かこう Listen descent; fall; drop
    • 滑降 かっこう Listen descent (esp. in skiing); sliding down; skiing down
    • 降雨 こうう Listen rainfall; rain
    • 降水量 こうすいりょう Listen amount of precipitation; precipitation
    • 降板 こうばん Listen leaving the mound; being knocked out; resignation
    • 乗降 じょうこう Listen getting on and off; embarking and disembarking
    • 投降 とうこう Listen surrender

  • Four-character idioms with 降

    • 天孫降臨 てんそんこうりん Listen the descent to earth of the grandson of the sun goddess

  • Tattoo check: 降

    • Verified meaning: to descend, to fall, to surrender
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    descend; precipitate; fall; surrender

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    descend, fall, drop; lower, down

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to drop; to fall; to come down; to descend

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to descend, to fall; to drop, to lower

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To fall. As in 霜降 (frost falls). | To subdue. To submit. | Going down from above step by step. The Analects says: "Descending one step." All positions and ranks that move downward in sequence are called 降. As in 降官 (demotion), 降服 (reduced mourning). | To lower. As in 降心相從 (humble oneself to follow), 降格以求 (lower standards to seek) and the like. Note: In ancient texts, the character 降 had no Departing tone. Today by convention, 降伏 (subdue) is read Level tone, while 升降 (rise and fall), 下降 (descend) are all Departing tone.

  • Onyomi

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    go(ゴ) ゴ

    koh(コウ) コウ

  • Kunyomi

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    fu.ri(ふり) ふり

    fu.ru(ふ-る) ふ-る

    kuda.ru(くだ-る) くだ-る

    kuda.su(くだ-す) くだ-す

    o.riru(お-りる) お-りる

    o.rosu(お-ろす) お-ろす

  • Strokes

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    10 strokes

  • Radical

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    阜 阝 (kozato・kozatohen・oka)

  • Related Keywords

    descend fall surrender drop let down lower rain snow come down decline decrease dip disembark plummet precipitation sink subside

Sentences including 降

  • It is likely to rain soon.

  • The next station is where you get off.

  • Hardly had we come home when it began to rain.

  • I heard him go down the stairs.

  • I'll get off at the next station.

  • There are a few drops of rain now.

  • It came on to rain toward evening.

  • It stopped snowing an hour ago.

  • It may rain tomorrow.

  • As soon as we reached there , it began to rain.

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