漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
降: descend, precipitate
Also: fall, surrender
- ⻖hill(meaning)
- 夅(sound)
⻖ carries the meaning · 夅 gives the sound
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Five readings, and the words that use each
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 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
おりるoriru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 降りるおりるget off [v.i.]
おろすorosu · kun'yomi
- 降ろすおろすdrop off [v.t.]
ふるfuru · kun'yomi
- 降るふるfall (e.g. rain) [v.i.]
- 降らすふらすsend (e.g. rain) [v.t.]
ふりfuri · kun'yomi
- 土砂降りどしゃぶりdownpour
Also read ゴ, くだる, くだす, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)阜 hill, wall, as 阝 (meaning) + 夅 to descend (sound)
Descending a hill.
Source: Wiktionary, 降 (rev. 92202109), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Climb high! This radical represents the natural landscape of mounds, hills, and the protective physical barriers they provide for human settlements.”
Connections
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jiàng
Same form: 降 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 降 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 降 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiàng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.