降 - Dong Chinese dictionary

jiàng, xiáng

descend

Depicts two feet (夂、止) descending down a hill (阝).

Components

阝 Iconic component

fù

hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜. Depicts a hill.

夂 Iconic component

zhǐ

Depicts a foot walking down a hill.

止 Iconic component

zhǐ

(foot), stop

Depicts a foot walking down a hill.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 止 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

降

jiàng

descend, fall, drop; lower, down; to drop; to fall; to come down; to descend

降

xiáng

to surrender; to capitulate; to subdue; to tame

Most common words with 降

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	下降	to decline
	降低	to reduce
	降	to drop
	降落	to descend
	投降	to surrender

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
kˤruŋ-s (? < -[u]m-s)	kaewngH	jiàng	descend
m-kˤru[ŋ] (? < -[u]m)	haewng	xiáng	submit

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 32.1800% of movies

1090th most common character in movies

744th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	8
Unicode	U+964D
Shuowen	“降，下也。从，夅聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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