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下 kanji
below, down, descend, give, low, inferior
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
カゲ
Kun readings
したしももとさげるさがるくだるくだりくだす-くだすくださるおろすおりる
Variant forms
丅Words with 下
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —御下問a question from the emperor
- —最下位last place; lowest position; lowest rank; least significant (bit); lowest order
- —地下線underground wire or cable
- —舌下腺sublingual gland
- —満天下all over the world
- —耳下腺parotid gland
- —好下物favorite snack to have with drinks; favourite snack to have with drinks
- —誤投下accidental bombing
- —戦時下in times of war
- —意識下subconscious
- —下顎骨mandible; lower jawbone
- —下属音subdominant (note)
- —地下牢dungeon
- —沈下橋bridge designed to be underwater during a flood
- —落下物falling object; fallen object
- —支配下under the control (of); under the dominion (of)
- —下級財inferior goods (i.e. goods for which demand decreases when consumer's income increases)
- —下垂体pituitary gland; pituitary body; hypophysis
- —下腿骨lower leg bone (esp. the tibia and the fibula, but sometimes also including the patella)
- —門下省Chancellery (Tang dynasty China)