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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 6

JLPT level: N3

596 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: descend, precipitate, fall, surrender

Kunyomi: お.りる, お.ろす, ふ.る, ふ.り, くだ.る, くだ.す

Onyomi: コウ, ゴ

Composition: 阝 夅

降

Radical

Radical: 阜

Reading: こざとへん

Meaning: mound, dam (阝 left)

Strokes: 3

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Examples

Examples with audio

降雨量(こううりょう)   amount of rainfall

以降(いこう)   hereafter, thereafter

乗降客(じょうこうきゃく)   passengers getting on and off

乗降口(じょうこうぐち)   door for getting on and off

降下する(こうかする)   descend

降参する(こうさんする)   give in

降りる(おりる)   get off [v.i.]

降ろす(おろす)   drop off [v.t.]

降る(ふる)   fall (e.g. rain) [v.i.]

降らす(ふらす)   send (e.g. rain) [v.t.]

土砂降り(どしゃぶり)   downpour

Onyomi Examples

降格 (コウカク) demotion, relegation, downgrading

降雨 (コウウ) rainfall, rain

乗降 (ジョウコウ) getting on and off, embarking and disembarking

投降 (トウコウ) surrender

降三世明王 (ゴウザンゼミョウオウ) Trailokyavijaya Vidya-raja, conqueror of the three worlds

降誕会 (ゴウタンエ) service celebrating the birth of the Buddha (held on April 8), Buddha's birthday festival

Kunyomi Examples

降りる (おりる) to descend (e.g. a mountain), to go down, to come down, to alight (e.g. from bus), to get off, to disembark, to dismount, to step down, to retire, to give up, to quit, to fold, to be granted, to be issued, to be given, to form (of frost, dew, mist, etc.), to be passed (from the body; e.g. of a roundworm)

下ろす (おろす) to take down, to bring down, to lower (a hand, flag, shutter, etc.), to drop (an anchor, curtain, etc.), to let down (hair), to launch (a boat), to drop off (a passenger), to let off, to unload (goods, a truck, etc.), to offload, to discharge, to withdraw (money), to use for the first time, to wear for the first time, to cut off, to fillet (fish), to grate (e.g. radish), to prune (branches), to remove (someone from a position), to oust, to drop, to clear (the table), to remove (offerings from an altar), to pass down (e.g. old clothes), to hand down, to expel from the body (e.g. worms), to abort (a fetus), to invoke (a spirit), to call down

降る (ふる) to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.), to come down, to form (of frost), to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight), to pour in, to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.), to come, to arrive

降り (ふり) rainfall, snowfall, alighting, descending

降りしきる (ふりしきる) to fall continuously (of rain, snow, etc.), to fall hard, to fall heavily, to pour down

下る (くだる) to descend, to go down, to come down, to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.), to pass (of time), to surrender, to capitulate, to be less than, to be inferior to, to have the runs, to have diarrhea, to pass (in stool), to be discharged from the body, to depreciate oneself, to be humble

下す (くだす) to make a decision, to draw a conclusion, to give a judgement, to hand down a verdict, to pass a sentence, to give an order, to let go down, to lower, to do oneself, to do by oneself, to beat, to defeat, to have loose bowels, to have diarrhea, to pass (in stool), to discharge from the body, to do in one go, to do to the end without stopping

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