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降 : Descend

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descend, precipitate, fall, surrender

On 'yomi:
コウ(kou)(go)
Kun 'yomi:
お.りる(o.riru) お.ろす(o.rosu) ふ.る(fu.ru) ふ.り(fu.ri) くだ.る(kuda.ru) くだ.す(kuda.su)
Nanori:
ふり(furi) ふる(furu)
Strokes:10
Radical: (170)
Usage Rating:596
JLPT:N3
old JLPT:2
Grade:6
Unicode:0964d
jis208:25-63
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降 Usage examples

圧剤(こうあつざい)drug to lower blood pressure, antihypertensive
(こうにん)demotion
車口(こうしゃぐち)exit
雨林(こううりん)rainforest
神術(こうしんじゅつ)spiritualism
格人事(こうかくじんじ)demotion
雪量(こうせつりょう)amount of snowfall
ひょう(こうひょう)
(こうひょう)
hailstorm, hail
(こうだん)leaving the platform
り止む(ふりやむ)to stop raining or snowing
り込む(ふりこむ)
込む(ふりこむ)
to be blown in (e.g. rain), to sweep in
り募る(ふりつのる)to rain harder
り続く(ふりつづく)to continue to rain or snow
りしく(ふりしく)
り敷く(ふりしく)
敷く(ふりしく)
to lie scattered, to be strewn with, to be covered with
り積もる(ふりつもる)
積もる(ふりつもる)
to fall and pile up (e.g. snow), to lie thick
軍門に(ぐんもんにくだる)to capitulate, to surrender, to submit to, to concede
(こうしん)spiritualism, spiritism
(こうとう)demotion
(ごうま)conquering the devil
主役からろす(しゅやくからおろす)to relieve someone of the leading role
乗客をろす(じょうきゃくをおろす)to discharge passengers
変圧器(ていこうへんあつき)step-down transformer
天からりる(てんからおりる)to fall from heaven (the sky)
っても照っても(ふってもてっても)rain or shine
圧密伏応力(あつみつこうふくおうりょく)consolidation yield stress
下爆撃(きゅうこうかばくげき)dive bombing
(しょうこうだ)elevator (aviation)
(じょうこうきゃく)passengers getting on and off (a train)
放射性下物(ほうしゃせいこうかぶつ)radioactive fallout
(こぶり)light rain, drizzle
らし(アメフラシ)
(アメフラシ)
sea hare (esp. species Aplysia kurodai)
気流(かこうきりゅう)downward air current
滑りりる(すべりおりる)to slide down (a hill) (e.g. ski, toboggan), to slip down
昇り(のぼりふり)rising and falling, going up and down
天孫(てんそんこうりん)the descent to earth of the grandson of the sun goddess
途中(とちゅうこうき)stopover
清水の舞台から飛びりる(きよみずのぶたいからとびおりる)to make a leap into the dark, to take the plunge, to jump in at the deep end, to jump off the stage of the Kiyomizu temple
飛びり自殺(とびおりじさつ)
り自殺(とびおりじさつ)
自殺(とびおりじさつ)
killing oneself by jumping (e.g. from a tall building)
り場(おりば)drop-off point (e.g. ski lift, bus, taxi), exit ramp
誕祭(こうたんさい)celebration of the birthday of a saint or great man, Nativity
キリスト誕祭(キリストこうたんさい)Christmas
り作り(しもふりづくり)fish, chicken, shellfish, etc. blanched by exposure to boiling and then icy water