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
- —電圧降下voltage drop
- —物価下降price fall; fall in prices
- —懸垂下降rappel; abseil
- —降伏強度yield strength; yield stress
- —降下部隊paratroop corps
- —降格処分punishment by demotion; disciplinary demotion
- —降圧変圧器step-down transformer
- —乗降車優先priority to pedestrians
- —血圧降下剤anti-hypertensive agent
- —無条件降伏unconditional surrender
- —聖霊降臨祭Pentecost; Whitsunday
- —逓降変圧器step-down transformer
- —急降下爆撃dive bombing
- —階段昇降機stairlift; (home) chair lift
- —血糖降下剤hypoglycemic drug; hypoglycaemic drug
- —最急降下法saddle point method; steepest descent method; gradient descent method
- —降車ボタンstop button (on a bus)
- —線状降水帯linear rainband; lengthy band of rain
- —人工降雪機snowmaking machine; snow cannon; snow gun
- —空挺降下地域drop zone