Meaning
descend · fall · precipitate · surrender
On'yomi
コウ · ゴ
Kun'yomi
お.りる · お.ろす · くだ.す · くだ.る · ふ.り · ふ.る
Common compounds (38)
- 上り下り のぼりおりgoing up and down; ascent and descent; climb and descent
- 跳び降りる とびおりるto jump down; to jump off; to jump from; to jump out of
- 下り くだりdownbound (esp. away from Tokyo)
- 下りる おりるto be passed (from the body; e.g. of a roundworm)
- 以降 いこうon and after; from ... onward; since
- 天下り あまくだりdescent from heaven
- 下る くだるto be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.)
- 降伏 こうふくyield
- 降りしきる ふりしきるto fall continuously (of rain, snow, etc.); to fall hard; to fall heavily; to pour down
- ドシャ降り ドシャぶりdownpour; pouring rain; heavy rain; pelting rain; cloudburst
- 下降 かこうdescent; fall; drop; decline; downturn; subsidence
- 滑降 かっこうdownhill (race)