Today’s #kanji is 降, which is listed under its semantic element of #こざとへん（阝）, which means a hill, the earth, etc. Its phonetic element is 夅, which is not included in the 常用漢字 list but it has the meaning of “descending.”
Meaning: to descend, to fall, to drop, etc.
Reading: コウ、お、ふ（ぶ）
降雨（コウウ）: rainfall, rain(s)
降格（コウカク）する: to be demoted, to move down
降伏（コウフク）する: to surrender, to admit defeat, etc.
降臨（コウリン）する: to descend
降臨節: 【Christianity】 Advent
以降（イコウ）: from this/that point forward, on and after
下降（カコウ）a descent, a fall, a drop, a dive, a decline
降（お）りる: (for a frost) to occur; to alight, to get off; to give up (a post), to withdraw from …
霜が降りる: for a frost to fall
バスを降りる: to get off a bus
降りる駅を間違える: to get off at the wrong station
仕事を降りる: to withdraw from a job
ゲームを降りる: to quit the game
For the meaning of descending, 下りる is more common way of writing.
降（お）ろす: to set (a passenger) down, to unload, to take (something precious) down, to remove (a person) from a position
客を降ろす: to drop off a passenger
旗を降ろす: to lower a flag
社長の座から降ろす; to remove … from the presidency
For the meaning of “moving something lower”, 下ろす is the more common character.
降（ふ）る: (for rain/snow, etc.) to fall, to come down
土砂（ドシャ）降（ぶ）り: a heavy rain, a downpour
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- こざとへん
陽
