降

降 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+6 in Chinese, 阜+7 in Japanese, 9 strokes in Chinese in traditional Chinese, 8 strokes in mainland China, 10 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 弓中竹水手 (NLHEQ), four-corner 7725₄, composition ⿰阝夅)

• 𭉓, 𤌅, 𧌰, 𡲣, 𡹷, 𫁫, 𩄐, 𤯲

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1349, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41620
• Dae Jaweon: page 1852, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4126, character 18
• Unihan data for U+964D
• Unihan data for U+FA09

Historical forms of the character 降
Shang	Western Zhou
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kruːŋs, *ɡruːŋ) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 阝 (“hill, wall”) + phonetic 夅 (OC *ɡruːŋ, “to descend”) – descending a hill.

降

1. to fall; to drop; to descend; to come down

   降落  ―  jiàngluò  ―  to fall; to land

2. (honorific) to visit; to honor with one's presence
3. to bestow; to confer

   • 天降喪亂，饑饉薦臻。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     天降丧乱，饥馑荐臻。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Tiān jiàng sāngluàn, jījǐn jiànzhēn. [Pinyin]

     That Heaven [thus] sends down death and disorder?
     Famine comes again and again.

4. to reduce; to decrease; to lower

   降價／降价  ―  jiàngjià  ―  to reduce the price

5. (music) flat (♭)

   降A大調／降A大调  ―  jiàngēidàdiào  ―  A-flat major

6. to be born
7. (Hakka) to give birth
8. a surname

降

1. to surrender; to capitulate; to give in

   投降  ―  tóuxiáng  ―  to surrender

2. to subdue; to vanquish

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to descend
2. to fall
3. to precipitate
4. to surrender

• Go-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)^{←こう (kou, historical)}; ごう (gō)^{←ごう (gou, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: おりる (oriru, 降りる, Jōyō)^{←おる (oru, 降る, historical)}; おろす (orosu, 降ろす, Jōyō); ふる (furu, 降る, Jōyō); くだす (kudasu, 降す); くだる (kudaru, 降る); ふらす (furasu, 降らす); ふり (furi, 降り)
• Nanori: ふり (furi); ふる (furu)

From Middle Chinese 降 (MC kaewngH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ka̠(ː)ŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [강(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Wikisource 降 (eumhun 내릴 강 (naeril gang))

1. Hanja form^? of 강 (“to come down; to descend”).

From Middle Chinese 降 (MC haewng).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ha̠ŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [항]

降 (eumhun 항복할 항 (hangbokhal hang))

1. Hanja form^? of 항 (“to surrender”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

降: Hán Việt readings: giáng[1][2][3][4][5], hàng (胡(hồ)江(giang)切(thiết))[1][3][4][5]
降: Nôm readings: hàng[1][2][6][4][7], giáng[2][4][7], dán[1][2], nháng[3], giuống[6]

1. chữ Hán form of giáng (“to fall; to descend”).
2. chữ Hán form of hàng (“to surrender”).