Kanji1 / 10
降 kanji
descend, precipitate, fall, surrender
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
コウゴ
Kun readings
おりるおろすふるふりくだるくだす
Variant forms
夅Words with 降
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —降臨descent (to earth, esp. of a god); advent; epiphany; arrival (of an important person); appearance
- —沈降sedimentation (e.g. of red blood cells); precipitation; settling; subsidence (e.g. of land); sinking; submerging
- —降車alighting (from a train, bus, etc.); getting off; getting out (of a car)
- —昇降ascending and descending; going up and down
- —降嫁marriage of an Imperial princess to a subject
- —降霊summoning spirits; calling down spirits; spirit evocation; communing with spirits; communicating with the dead; spiritualism
- —降任demotion
- —降壇leaving the platform
- —降神spiritualism; spiritism
- —降等demotion
- —降鑒the gods watching over humans from the heavens
- —霜降"frost descent" solar term (approx. October 23)
- —降海swimming downstream (to the sea)
- —降灰fall of (volcanic) ash; falling ash
- —降着landing; touchdown; splashdown; demotion; accretion
- —来降advent; descent (of a god)
- —潜降diving
- —降園going home from kindergarten; coming home from kindergarten
- —降級downgrading; demotion; degradation; lowering of position (or rank, etc.)
- —降機disembarkation (from an aircraft or spacecraft); deplaning