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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
- —外廊下exterior hallway (esp. of an apartment building); open-air corridor
- —内廊下interior hallway (esp. of an apartment building); enclosed corridor
- —識閾下subliminal; below the threshold of consciousness
- —下院議員member of the lower house; congressman; congresswoman; representative; member of parliament
- —下院議長Speaker of the House (US, etc.)
- —下弦の月last quarter moon; third quarter moon; waning half-moon
- —下士官兵enlisted man
- —下層階級proletariat; lower classes
- —下層社会the underworld; lower ranks of society
- —下等植物lower plants
- —下等動物lower animals
- —下表参照(see the) following table or tables
- —下部機関subordinate offices or institutions
- —下流社会lower classes
- —急転直下suddenly and precipitately; take a sudden turn
- —九天直下falling headlong; plummeting; sudden crash
- —空中投下airdrop; air drop
- —月下氷人go-between; matchmaker; Cupid
- —皇后陛下Her Majesty the Empress
- —今上陛下His Majesty the Emperor; the present emperor; the reigning emperor