Onyomi: カン · Kunyomi: - · Meanings: completion, end, perfect
Kanji for completion, end, perfect
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降 combines the left radical 阝, which represents a hill or slope, with the character 夅, which originally showed a person stepping downward with their arms lowered. Ancient scribes used this combination to express the motion of someone moving down a hillside or descending from a higher place. The shape captures the careful, deliberate action of going downward, whether it’s a person walking down or something naturally falling from above.
降 shows a person descending a slope — the left side is a hill, and the right side shows the posture of stepping downward. Together it represents falling, lowering, or going down.
Think of someone carefully walking down a hill (阝), their body stepping lower and lower (夅) — that steady descent is the meaning of 降.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 完 | かん | The End, Finis | Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.) |
| 完全 | かんぜん | perfect, complete | common JLPT-N3 Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', Noun |
| 完成 | かんせい | completion, perfection, accomplishment | common JLPT-N3 Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb, Intransitive verb |
| 完了 | かんりょう | completion, conclusion | common JLPT-N3 Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb, Intransitive verb |
| 完璧 | かんぺき | perfect, complete, flawless | common JLPT-N1 Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun |
| 完全試合 | かんぜんじあい | perfect game | common Noun |
| 完全雇用 | かんぜんこよう | full employment | Noun |
| 完売 | かんばい | selling out, being sold out | common Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb |
| 完走 | かんそう | finishing (a race), running the whole distance, reaching the goal, staying the course | common Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |
| 完敗 | かんぱい | (suffering a) complete defeat, utter defeat, annihilation | common Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |