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HSK
to reduce; to lower; to bring down
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *降* | 降* | *降
to drop / to fall / to come down / to descend
HSK 4
to cut the price / to drive down the price / to get cheaper
HSK 4
to descend / to land
HSK 4
to become cooler / to lower the temperature / cooling / (of interest, activity etc) to decline
HSK 4
to descend / to arrive / to come
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *降* | 降* | *降
to surrender / to capitulate / to subdue / to tame
precipitation / rainfall
to reduce the pressure (of a fluid) / to lower one's blood pressure / to lower (or step down) the voltage
to snow / snowfall
descending order
degree of reduction (in prices, numbers etc) / decline / drop
to demote / to relegate / to degrade
noise reduction
to subdue monsters
to lower interest rates
(chemistry) degradation / to degrade
to yield / to surrender
to subdue / to vanquish / to tame
to demote (to a lower rank)
to lower a flag / to strike the colors
rain and snow / precipitation (meteorology)
to be born / arrival of newborn / birth (of a savior or religious leader)
to downgrade / to lower the standard / degrading / humiliating
surrendered enemy general
to vanquish dragons and tigers (idiom)
to issue an imperial edict
lit. to descend to earth (of an immortal) / to be born
parachute
blessings from heaven
to decrease internal heat (Chinese medicine)
Advent (Christian period of 4 weeks before Christmas)
descending colon (anatomy) / third section of large intestine
precipitation / quantity of rainfall
(music) flat (♭)
runway (at airport)
antihypertensive drug
calcitonin
falling intonation (linguistics) / to lower the key of a tune / to demote
to fall / to drop
dust fall / fallout (volcanic, nuclear etc) / particulate matter
precipitation (meteorology) / measured quantity of rain
extra pay for hot weather
to send down blessings from heaven
noradrenalin
landing site


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