Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Parts:
Variants:
descend, precipitate, fall, surrender
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
596 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 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

Kun reading compounds

  • 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

Readings

Japanese names:
ふり、 ふる
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiang4, xiang2
Korean:
hang, gang

Spanish

  • caer
  • bajar
  • descender
  • llover
  • rendirse
  • desde entonces
  • bajarse

Portuguese

  • descer
  • precipitar
  • queda
  • rendição

French

  • descendre
  • pleuvoir
  • précipiter
  • tomber
  • se rendre
873 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
863 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
787 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4994 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
887 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
984 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1058 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
947 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
977 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
136 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
731 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
548 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
335 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
414 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1317 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41620 Morohashi
458 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6450 New Nelson (John Haig)
1308 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1405 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
898 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3655 2001 Kanji
2d7.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
7725.4 Four corner code
1-25-63 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
964d Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
evening, sunset
Parts:
Variants:
dream, vision, illusion
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
943 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 夢中 【ムチュウ】 absorbed in, immersed in, crazy about, obsessed with, devoted to, forgetting oneself, daze, trance, ecstasy, delirium, within a dream, while dreaming
  • 夢想 【ムソウ】 dream, vision, reverie
  • 同床異夢 【ドウショウイム】 cohabiting but living in different worlds
  • 怪夢 【カイム】 strange dream

Kun reading compounds

  • 夢 【ゆめ】 dream
  • 夢にも 【ゆめにも】 (not) in the slightest, (not) at all
  • 初夢 【はつゆめ】 first dream of the New year (believed to foretell one's luck), dream on the night of setsubun
  • 逆夢 【さかゆめ】 a dream which is contradicted by reality
  • 夢見る 【ゆめみる】 to dream (of)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
meng4
Korean:
mong

Spanish

  • sueño
  • visión
  • ilusión

Portuguese

  • sonho
  • visão
  • ilusão

French

  • rêve
  • vision
  • illusion
816 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
1844 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
969 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4028 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1425 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
444 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1990 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
811 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
830 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
800 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
407 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2939 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1510 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2046 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
311 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5801P Morohashi
2336 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1131 New Nelson (John Haig)
305 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
327 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
783 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1960 2001 Kanji
3k10.14 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-10 SKIP code
2-8-5 SKIP code
4420.7 Four corner code
1-44-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5922 Unicode hex code