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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
- —千里の行も足下に始まるa journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
- —偽性副甲状腺機能低下症pseudohypoparathyroidism
- —一葉落ちて天下の秋を知るa straw will show which way the wind blows; a falling leaf shows that autumn has come
- —それ以上でもそれ以下でもないno more, no less; that's the entirety of it
- —已下not exceeding ...; not more than ...; ... and under; ... and below; ... or fewer; below (a standard, level, etc.); under; beneath; less than; the following; the below-mentioned; the rest; followed by ...; including ...; ... and other (employees, officials, etc.)
- —旗下under the command (of); under the banner (of); influenced (by)
- —腋下armpit; axilla
- —几下word of respect added to the addressee's name on a letter; under the desk
- —燈下place by the lamp; area under the lamp
- —雪下zitting cisticola (Cisticola juncidis); fan-tailed warbler
- —胯下crotch; thigh; groin
- —曳下airburst; bursting in the air (of a shell, projectile, etc.)
- —曳下弾time-fuze shell; time-fuse shell; air-burst shell
- —嚊天下household with the wife as the boss; wife wearing the pants; wife ruling the roost; house with a henpecked husband
- —嬶天下household with the wife as the boss; wife wearing the pants; wife ruling the roost; house with a henpecked husband
- —ご下問a question from the emperor
- —地下炉sunken hearth; sunken fireplace
- —駅地下underground shopping arcade connected to a station
- —識域下subliminal; below the threshold of consciousness
- —地下２階second basement level; subbasement