Today’s second #kanji is #下. It’s listed under the radical of #一. It looks a bit like the capital “F” but the shortest stroke goes diagonally down. This has 8 different readings.
Meaning: down, below, underneath, to go down, to lower, to grant, etc.
地下（チカ）: the underground
下（した）: the bottom, underneath, down, below, etc.
川下（かわしも）: the lower part of a river法（ホウ）の下（もと）の平等（ビョウドウ）: equality under the law, equal access to the law下（さ）がる: to dangle, to fall, to drop, to decrease, to come down, to retreat
下（さ）げる: to suspend, to lower, to reduce, to demote, to remove, etc.
下（くだ）す: to hand down, to let down, to make (a decision), to have diarrhea
下（お）りる: to go down, to alight, to be granted, etc.
下（お）ろす: to bring down, to lower, to cut off, to drop … off, to pass on, etc.
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