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
- —圧密降伏応力consolidation yield stress
- —放射性降下物radioactive fallout
- —降圧トランスstep-down transformer
- —フリー乗降制hail and ride (bus system)
- —赤血球沈降速度erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ESR
- —キリスト降誕祭Christmas
- —順方向電圧降下forward voltage drop (e.g. in a semiconductor)
- —已降on and after; from ... onward; since
- —降服surrender; capitulation; submission; yield
- —降雹hailstorm; hail
- —降世birth of a deity or Buddha as a human being; descent into this world