降 (jiàng)
to drop; to fall; to land
How 降 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 阝 — town
- Traditional
- 降
- Simplified
- 降 (unchanged)
Components
- 阝 town
- 夂 go
- 十 ten
- ㇗ N/A
- 丨 line
降 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- jiàng
- to drop; to fall; to come down; to descend
- xiáng
- to surrender; to capitulate; to subdue; to tame
Common words using 降
- 下降 xiàjiàng
- to decline; to drop; to fall
- 降低 jiàngdī
- to reduce; to lower; to bring down
- 降臨 jiànglín
- to descend to
- 投降 tóuxiáng
- to surrender; surrender
- 空降 kōngjiàng
- airborne
- 降價 jiàngjià
- price reduction
- 降水 jiàngshuǐ
- rain and snow; precipitation (meteorology)
- 降溫 jiàngwēn
- to become cooler; to lower the temperature; cooling
- 降火 jiànghuǒ
- to decrease internal heat (Chinese medicine)
- 降級 jiàngjí
- to demote; to relegate; to degrade
- 降落 jiàngluò
- to descend; to land
- 降落傘 jiàngluòsǎn
- parachute
降 in a sentence
飛機快要降落了。
Fēijī kuàiyào jiàngluò le.
“The plane is about to land.”
How common is 降?
降 is the 743rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 83.9% of all running text.
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