降 (jiàng): meaning and stroke order
降 (jiàng) means to drop, to fall, to come down, to descend, to surrender; to capitulate.
降
- Simplified
- 降
- Traditional
- 降 (same form)
- Pinyin
- jiàng · xiáng
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Stroke order of 降
降
- jiàng to drop; to fall
- xiáng to surrender; to capitulate; to subdue; to conquer; to tame
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Meaning of 降
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jiàng
- to drop
- to fall
- to come down
- to descend
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xiáng
- to surrender; to capitulate
- to subdue; to conquer; to tame
Radical and structure
- 降
- Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 9 strokes · 阝 on the left, 夅 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 降
- 投降 tóu xiáng to surrender
- 降低 jiàng dī to reduce; to lower; to bring down
降 in our stories
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她半信半疑地把速度降到了每公里七分钟，慢得连旁边遛狗的大爷都能跟上。
tā bànxìnbànyí de bǎ sùdù jiàng dào le měi gōnglǐ qī fēnzhōng màn de lián pángbiān liùgǒu de dàye dōu néng gēn shàng
Half doubting, she dropped her pace to seven minutes a kilometre—so slow that even an old man walking his dog beside her could keep up.
From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9
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艄公说：“每年这个时候，黄河上下的鲤鱼都游到这里来。传说跳过龙门的鱼，天上会降下一团火，烧掉它的尾巴，它才能化为龙。”
shāogōng shuō měi nián zhège shíhou Huáng Hé shàngxià de lǐyú dōu yóu dào zhèli lái chuánshuō tiào guò Lóngmén de yú tiānshàng huì jiàng xià yì tuán huǒ shāo diào tā de wěiba tā cái néng huà wéi lóng
The boatman said, "Every year at this time the carp from all along the Yellow River swim here. The legend says that when a fish leaps the gate, a ball of fire comes down from the sky and burns off its tail, and only then can it turn into a dragon."
From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Stories using 降
- The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9
- The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).