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Kanji Detail for 降 - "descend, fall, surrender"
降
- Meaning
降 means "descend, fall, surrender."
Descend - To come down; to go lower.
Fall - To drop; rain or snow falling.
Surrender - To yield; to submit.
- 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.
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Sentences including 降
じきに雨が降ってきそうだ。
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.