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
- —ウィンドウ下限lower window edge
- —下位けたあふれunderflow
- —下位ダイアログsubordinate dialogue
- —順方向電圧降下forward voltage drop (e.g. in a semiconductor)
- —キツネザル下目Lemuriformes; infraorder containing the lemurs (and sometimes the lorises and galagos)
- —メガネザル下目Tarsiiformes; infraorder containing the tarsiers
- —首都直下型地震Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes
- —天皇皇后両陛下Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress
- —李下に冠を正さずleave no room for scandal; don't do anything that can be misinterpreted; don't straighten your cap under a plum tree (because when you raise your hands it might look as if you're trying to steal the plums)
- —価格の下方硬直性downward price rigidity
- —金は天下の回り物money comes and goes; money goes around and around
- —地下鉄サリン事件sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway (March 20, 1995)
- —小数点以下の桁数number of decimal places
- —甲状腺機能低下症hypothyroidism
- —呉下の阿蒙に非ずto no longer be the same old person; to have made remarkable progress; to have improved significantly (through study)
- —修身斉家治国平天下those who wish to rule the land must first cultivate their own characters, then manage their families, then govern their states; only then can they bring peace to the land
- —副甲状腺機能低下症hypoparathyroidism
- —鞍上人なく鞍下馬なしriding a horse so skillfully that it appears as if man and horse have become one
- —脳下垂体前葉ホルモンadenohypophyseal hormone
- —脳下垂体後葉ホルモンneurohypophyseal hormone