Kanji1 / 3
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
- —下行路descending tract
- —最下段bottom step; bottom stair; last line; last column; bottom row (e.g. drawers)
- —地下湖underground lake; subterranean lake
- —最下階bottom floor; lowest floor
- —下中音submediant
- —落下点point of fall
- —統治下being under the rule of; being under the government of
- —下気道lower respiratory tract; lower airway
- —地下階basement floor; underground floor
- —天下人ruler of the whole country; person who holds the reins of government
- —最下層bottom layer; undermost layer; lowest (societal) class; bottom (economic) stratum; lowest caste
- —下位者person of low rank or position
- —以下略rest omitted; and so on
- —下方婚hypogamy; marriage into a lower social or financial class
- —下位群subgroup
- —棘下筋infraspinatus muscle
- —下肢芽tail bud (on an embryo)
- —下層雲low-level clouds; low clouds
- —降下物fallout (e.g. radioactive)
- —状況下under ... circumstances; under ... conditions; in a ... situation; in a ... state