降
jiàngxiáng HSK4

descend

降 jiàng frequency
to fall verb
to fall; to descend; to drop from a higher to a lower position

把笼子降下来！

bǎ lóng​zi jiàng xia lái!

Lower the cage!

to lower verb
to lower; to reduce; to demote (e.g., price, rank)
to be born
(bound form) to be born; to come into the world
to bestow
(literary) to bestow; to confer; to send down from heaven, such as blessings or disasters
to arrive
(honorific) to grace with one's presence; to deign to visit
降 xiáng
to surrender verb
to surrender; to capitulate; to give up resistance
to subdue
to subdue; to conquer; to tame or bring under control
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Antonym

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
744th most common 254.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,090th most common 86.4 per million appears in 32% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
15.9 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
67.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+964D

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)