below; lower

Builds 56 distinct compound words — ranked #35 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: カ・ゲ
訓 kun: した・さ.げる・くだ.る・お.りる・もと

Below, and going down. 地下 underground, 以下 below or less than, 下手 unskilful.

The ten most common compounds built on 下. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

56compounds built

4,114times those words occur

#77by productivity alone

#24by how often it turns up

Where 下 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 下. Each one opens its own map.

手hand下手#10 見see見下ろす、見下す#11 年year年下#26 地ground; land地下鉄#45 部part; department; club部下#49 目eye; ordinal marker目下#60

Words built on 下

下さいください3,041 uses

下さるくださる229 uses

下した195 uses

下手へた52 uses

地下鉄ちかてつ48 uses

以下いか45 uses

下すくだす41 uses

部下ぶか38 uses

下げるさげる38 uses

下るくだる31 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.