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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
- —天下御免licensed; chartered; officially allowed; legitimate
- —天下周知common knowledge; widely known; known to everybody
- —標準以下below average
- —貴賤上下high and low; (people of) all ranks and classes
- —瓜田李下be careful not to invite the least suspicion; leave no room for scandal
- —下方修正downward adjustment; downward revision
- —月下推敲polish; elaboration; repeatedly working over one's writing; being very scrupulous in the choice of diction
- —地下工作underground activities; secret maneuvering
- —天下国家the world and the nation; the state of the world; high affairs of state
- —天下第一the best in the land; the best of its kind in the country; par excellence in the whole country
- —天下多事eventful times for the nation (world); the nation (world) being in turmoil; the storm clouds gathering in the land
- —天下統一unification of the whole country
- —天下万民the whole nation; all the people in the land
- —天下無類peerless (unparalleled, matchless, unequaled) in the country
- —女房天下husband being henpecked; house where the wife is the boss; petticoat government
- —百日天下very short-lived regime; very brief reign; (Napoleon's post-Elba) Hundred Days
- —李下瓜田be careful not to invite the least suspicion; leave no room for scandal
- —下学上達beginning one's studies with something familiar and gradually increasing the depth of learning
- —月下老人go-between; matchmaker
- —列王記下Kings II (book of the Bible)