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
- —緩降機slow-descent device (for evacuating tall buildings)
- —降下物fallout (e.g. radioactive)
- —乗降口passenger vehicle entrance and exit
- —降雨期rain period; rainy season
- —人工降雨artificial rain; rainmaking; cloud seeding
- —動力降下power dive
- —滑降競技downhill; downhill race
- —臣籍降下(of members of the Imperial family) becoming subjects of the state
- —沈降海岸submerged shoreline
- —降格人事demotion
- —降ひょうhailstorm; hail
- —下降気流downward air current
- —天孫降臨the descent to earth of the grandson of the sun goddess
- —途中降機stopover (between flights)
- —処女降誕virgin birth (esp. of Jesus)
- —降水確率chance of precipitation; chance of rain
- —降河回遊downstream migration
- —降順キーdescending key
- —降着円盤accretion disc; accretion disk
- —降着装置landing gear