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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
- —降納lowering (e.g. of a flag); taking down
- —降旗surrender flag; white flag
- —降冪descending powers
- —降船disembarkation (from a ship); lowering a boat onto the ground
- —降温temperature decrease; fall in temperature; cooling
- —降圧lowering of pressure (e.g. blood pressure, voltage)
- —降生birth of a deity or Buddha as a human being; descent into this world
- —下降線downward curve
- —急降下sudden drop; sharp fall; nosedive; swoop
- —降霊術necromancy; spiritism; spiritualism
- —降雨量amount of rainfall
- —降魔術demon invocation; summoning demons
- —再降臨Second Advent
- —乗降場(station) platform
- —投降者surrenderer; person who surrenders
- —無降水lack of rainfall; drought
- —直滑降schuss; straight descent
- —斜滑降traversing
- —昇降口entrance; hatch(way)
- —昇降機elevator; lift