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
- N2以降Popularon and after; from ... onward; since
- N2下降Populardescent; fall; drop; decline; downturn; subsidence
- N1降水Popularrainfall; precipitation
- N1降伏Popularsurrender; capitulation; submission; yield
- —滑降Populardescent (esp. in skiing); sliding down; skiing down; downhill (race)
- —降雨Popularrainfall; rain
- —降下Populardescent; fall; drop; (atmospheric) depression; passing down (of an order, decree, etc.)
- —降参Popularsurrender; submission; capitulation; being defeated (e.g. by a problem); giving up; giving in
- —降雪Popularsnowfall; snow
- —乗降Populargetting on and off; embarking and disembarking
- —投降Popularsurrender
- —降格Populardemotion; relegation; downgrading
- —降板Popularleaving the mound; being knocked out; resignation; stepping down; withdrawing
- —降水量Popularamount of precipitation; precipitation
- —勧降call to surrender
- —降給reduction in pay
- —降順descending order
- —降職degradation
- —降霜frost formation; frost
- —降誕birth (of a saint, monarch, etc.); nativity