降

Meaningjiàng(verb)

to drop; to fall; to come down; to descend

Related: 降落 (land), 降价 (cut prices), 下降 (decline).

Examples

• 明天气温要降五度。

  míng tiān qì wēn yào jiàng wǔ dù.

  The temperature will drop five degrees tomorrow.

• 飞机马上就要降落了。

  fēi jī mǎ shàng jiù yào jiàng luò le.

  The plane is about to land.

• 这个月房价降了不少。

  zhè ge yuè fáng jià jiàng le bù shǎo.

  House prices fell quite a bit this month.

Easily confused

• 降 (xiáng) — Same character: jiàng means fall; xiáng means surrender (投降).

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Meaningxiáng(verb)

to surrender; to capitulate; to subdue; to tame

Examples

• 敌人最后投降了。

  dí rén zuì hòu tóu xiáng le.

  The enemy finally surrendered.

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