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
- —降圧剤drug to lower blood pressure; antihypertensive
- —降車口exit (for disembarking passengers)
- —降雨林rainforest
- —降神術spiritualism
- —降雪量amount of snowfall
- —昇降舵elevator
- —乗降客passengers getting on and off (a train)
- —降誕祭Christmas; Nativity; celebration of the birthday of a saint or great man
- —降河魚catadromous fish (fish that migrates downstream, e.g. eel)
- —降流魚catadromous fish (fish that migrates downstream, e.g. eel)
- —降海型sea-run variety (of fish)
- —降霊会spiritism session; seance
- —下降調falling intonation; falling tone
- —下降期downturn; decrement phase
- —滑降風katabatic wind
- —待降節Advent
- —降圧薬antihypertensive; hypotensive drug; blood pressure-lowering medicine
- —降格圏relegation zone
- —降誕会service celebrating the birth of the Buddha (held on April 8); Buddha's birthday festival
- —降交点descending node