降
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Translingual
Alternative forms
Two Unicode z-code variants, at code points U+964D (main) and U+FA09 (alt).
Han character
降 (radical 170, 阜+6 in Chinese, 阜+7 in Japanese, 9 strokes in Chinese, 10 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 弓中竹水手 (NLHEQ), four-corner 77254, composition ⿰阝夅)
Derived terms
References
- KangXi: page 1349, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41620
- Dae Jaweon: page 1852, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4126, character 18
- Unihan data for U+964D
- Unihan data for U+FA09
Chinese
simp. and trad. |
降 | |
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variant forms | 𫱔 (kiung) Hakka |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (夅) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
贛 | *kluːmʔ, *kluːms, *kromʔ, *kloːms |
灨 | *kluːmʔ, *kluːms |
竷 | *kʰluːms |
戇 | *kr'oːms, *qʰloːms |
洚 | *kruːŋs, *ɡruːŋ, *ɡloːŋ, *ɡluːŋ |
降 | *kruːŋs, *ɡruːŋ |
絳 | *kruːŋs |
栙 | *ɡruːŋ |
夅 | *ɡruːŋ |
跭 | *ɡruːŋ |
隆 | *ɡ·ruːŋ |
癃 | *ɡ·ruːŋ |
窿 | *ɡ·ruːŋ |
霳 | *ɡ·ruːŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kruːŋs, *ɡruːŋ) : semantic 阝 (“hill, wall”) + phonetic 夅 (OC *ɡruːŋ, “descend”) – descending a hill.
Pronunciation 1
Definitions
降
- to fall; to drop; to descend; to come down
- (honorific) to visit; to honour with one's presence
- to bestow; to confer
- 天降喪亂,饑饉薦臻。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Tiān jiàng sāngluàn, jījǐn jiànzhēn. [Pinyin]
- That Heaven [thus] sends down death and disorder?
Famine comes again and again.
天降丧乱,饥馑荐臻。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- to reduce; to decrease; to lower
- (music) flat (♭)
- to be born
- (Hakka) to give birth
- A surname.
Compounds
Derived terms from 降
Pronunciation 2
Japanese
Readings
Korean
Etymology 1
Middle Chinese *kɣʌŋH.
Derived terms
- 강단하다 (降壇하다, gangdanhada, “step down from a platform”)
Etymology 2
Middle Chinese *ɦɣʌŋ.
Hanja
降 • (hang)
Derived terms
- 항복
Vietnamese
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