降 jiàng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 阝 — place, town, city
- Made of
- 阝 place, town, city 夅 to descend, to fall
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
降
jiàng
to fall
Character
Example phrases
- 雨降下来了。 Yǔ jiàng xiàlai le. The rain is falling.
- 气温降了。 Qìwēn jiàng le. The temperature has dropped.
- 今天降雨。 Jīntiān jiàng yǔ. It rains today.
Related words
- 降低 jiàngdī to lower
- 降价 jiàngjià to cut the price
- 降落 jiàngluò to land
- 降温 jiàngwēn to cool down
- 下降 xiàjiàng to go down; to fall
- 改正 gǎizhèng to correct
- 减少 jiǎnshǎo to reduce; to decrease
- 改善 gǎishàn to improve
- 减 jiǎn to reduce; to subtract
- 代替 dàitì to replace
- 着火 zháohuǒ to catch fire
- 替代 tìdài to replace