降

to drop / to fall / to come down / to descend

to surrender / to capitulate / to subdue / to tame

old variant of 降[jiang4]

old variant of 降[xiang2]

Character component without intrinsic meaning

to decline / to drop / to fall / to go down / to decrease

lit. to drop from the sky (idiom) / fig. to appear unexpectedly / to arise abruptly / out of the blue / to drop into one's lap

aerial work platform (e.g. cherry picker or scissor lift) / lift / elevator

rising and falling

to accept surrender

lit. one object bests another object / every item has a weakness (idiom) / there is a rock to every scissor, a scissor to every paper, and a paper to every rock

to parachute into / parachuting

since (some point in the past)

anti-aircraft defense

a surrender ceremony

potential drop (elec.)