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Descend Walking Legs 降 コウ、ゴ お.りる、お.ろす、ふ.る、ふ.り、くだ.る、くだ.す ふり ふる

Kanji
Onyomi コウ、ゴ
Kunyomi お.りる、お.ろす、ふ.る、ふ.り、くだ.る、くだ.す
Nanori ふり, ふる
English descend, precipitate, fall, surrender
Examples 以降(いこう): on and after; as from; hereafter; thereafter; since
下降(かこう): downward; descent; fall; drop; subsidence
降伏(こうふく): capitulation; surrender; submission
降る(ふる): to precipitate; to fall (e.g. rain)
降水(こうすい): rainfall; precipitation
降り出す(ふりだす): to begin to rain
JLPT Level 3
Jouyou Grade 6
Frequency 596
Components 阜: hill; mound; left village radical (no. 170)
夅: to descend; to come down from heaven; to send down
Number of Strokes 10
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 170
Radical Strokes 8
Radical Reading こざと・こざとへん・おか・ぎふのふ
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword descend
Koohii Story 1 Sunglasses-missing-one-lens is obviously the monocle. The proper, high-class way to descend The Pinnacle is wearing a monocle with your walking legs splayed to a full gentlemanly stride.
Koohii Story 2 After a cool, hip businessman angered the executives at The Pinnacle, they beat him up, popping out a lens from his sunglasses, and tossed out the window, head first, walking legs second. One executive later commented, "It was like he was descending into Hell from Heaven!".
RTK Index 1308

Tags: jlpt.n3, grade6, kanjifreq501-750

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