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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
- —歴代誌下Chronicles II (book of the Bible)
- —下大静脈inferior vena cava
- —地下家蚊London Underground mosquito (Culex pipiens f. molestus)
- —脚下照顧look carefully where your own footsteps fall; seek enlightenment by knowing yourself and not by watching others; know thyself
- —下位参照subordinate reference
- —議会下院lower house (parliament, congress, diet)
- —粘膜下層submucosa
- —下達上通conveying the views of the subordinates to the rulers; rulers apprehending the views of those they govern
- —下位分類subclass; subdivision
- —下行結腸descending colon
- —眼瞼下垂ptosis; blepharoptosis; droopy eyelid
- —電圧降下voltage drop
- —物価下降price fall; fall in prices
- —学力低下decline in academic ability; decline in academic performance
- —視床下核subthalamic nucleus
- —落下傘兵paratrooper; parachutist
- —舌下神経hypoglossal nerve
- —自由落下free fall
- —後獣下綱Metatheria (mammalian infraclass)
- —真獣下綱Eutheria (mammalian infraclass)