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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
- —下膊forearm
- —卸下cargo unloading
- —下愚very stupid (person); great fool; oneself
- —雨下raining; downpour
- —下焦lower jiao (in traditional Chinese medicine); lower burner
- —下欄text at the foot of a page, document, screen, etc.
- —舌下sublingual; under the tongue
- —下医bad physician; bad doctor
- —下目infraorder
- —一下something handed down (usu. an order)
- —崖下below a cliff
- —下階floor below; floor downstairs
- —雁下area below the pectoral muscle
- —山下foot of a mountain; base of a mountain
- —李下underneath a Japanese plum tree
- —下令giving an order
- —下元15th day of the 10th lunar month
- —下葉lower lobe (of lung); inferior lobe
- —下土lower world; this world; the earth
- —座下nearby (one's seat); (by) one's side; Dear (Mr./Mrs.)