Chinese symbol for “descend”
降落
jiàng luò
to descend; to land
The closest CC-CEDICT match for descend is 降落 (jiàng luò), defined as: to descend; to land.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “descend”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 降临 (降臨) | jiàng lín | to descend; to arrive |
| 下去 | xià qù | to go down; to descend |
| 降 | jiàng | to drop; to fall |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 降落.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 降低 | jiàng dī | to reduce; to lower; to bring down |
| 下降 | xià jiàng | to decline; to drop |
| 投降 | tóu xiáng | to surrender |
| 降临 (降臨) | jiàng lín | to descend; to arrive |
| 降价 (降價) | jiàng jià | to cut the price; to drive down the price |
| 落实 (落實) | luò shí | practical; workable |
| 部落 | bù luò | tribe |
| 落后 (落後) | luò hòu | to fall behind; to lag (in technology etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “descend”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.