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
- —貴下you
- —府下suburban districts (of a metropolis); within an urban-prefecture
- —都下in the capital; in Tokyo; Western Tokyo; areas of Tokyo outside the 23 wards, esp. the Tama area
- —現下the present time; current
- —言下promptly
- —脚下at one's feet
- —灯下place by the lamp; area under the lamp
- —月下in the moonlight
- —泉下Hades; the hereafter
- —下界lower bound
- —隷下subordinates; followers
- —西下going west (esp. from Tokyo to the Kansai region); leaving for the west
- —閾下subliminal
- —樹下under a tree
- —下合inferior conjunction
- —下綱infraclass
- —翼下under the wing (esp. of an aircraft); under one's wing; under one's control
- —放下discarding; abandoning; variety of street performance from the Middle Ages; casting off one's attachments (in Zen)
- —流下flowing down (e.g. water in a river); downward flow
- —下面underside; undersurface; inferior surface