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JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

下か降こう

kakou

to fall, to decline

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれの人気にんきは下降かこう線せんをたどっている。

    His popularity is falling.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 年々人気ねんねんにんきが下降かこうしている

    its popularity has been going down year by year

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 年間入場者ねんかんにゅうじょうしゃは、ピークの1978年ねんには約やく100万人近まんにんちかくいたが、その後ごは下降かこう線せんを辿たどった。

    The number of annual visitor was approximately 1 million in its peak days in 1978, but the number kept declining since then.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 下降

  • 下below; downOnカ・ゲKunした・しも・もと
  • 降descend; precipitateOnコウ・ゴKunおりる・おろす・ふる

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