下

Word usually written using kana alone; Abbreviation

Japanese spirea (Spiraea Japonica); meadowsweet

下野 only; Historical term

Shimotsuke (former province located in present-day Tochigi Prefecture)

younger child

disembarkation; getting off a ship; going ashore

non-drinker; someone who cannot drink

dismounting

putting beneath other goods; being at the bottom of the pile

lowly position; bottom (of the ladder); obscurity

to die down (of a fire); to be brought under control

Idiomatic expression

to decline; to wane; to fall off; to drop; to go out of fashion

to point down; to look down

to get worse; to begin to fall (e.g. of a price)

the lowest (of its kind); the poorest

seasoning of food

underbrush; undergrowth

laxative; purgative; evacuant

order; command

lower branch (of an organization); subordinate organization; substructure

rough sketch; design; cartoon

lodging house

the lower classes; the masses; the common people

Derogatory

underclass; riffraff

going from the capital to the provinces

Sometimes written as 還向

returning after praying at a temple or shrine

coming down from a high place to a low place

worn-out rice land

underclothes

to make a (government) grant

to release (a criminal)

lower limit

Mathematics

infimum

descending staircase

the following