Meanings
Verb (1-dan, transitive)
1. to hang; to suspend; to wear (e.g. decoration)
2. to lower; to reduce; to bring down
3. to demote; to move back; to pull back
4. to clear (plates); to remove (food, etc. from table or altar)
5. to keep on playing after one has formed a scoring combination with captured cards
Kanji used
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Pitch accent
Top 2000
Used in vocabulary (23 in total)
to bow; to bow one's head; to apologize; to apologise; to bow to; to yield to
to hang; to suspend; to dangle; to swing; to carry
to withdraw; to abandon (e.g. a lawsuit)
Examples (18 in total)
Put your hands down!
Could you turn the volume down?
Turn down the volume, please.
I think we should lower the price.
Could you turn down the radio?
Please turn down the volume a little bit more.
Could you turn the television down a bit?
I'll agree to the terms if you lower the price.
Mass production reduced the price of many goods.
We have to reduce the cost to a minimum.
Then, at last, the policeman lowered his arm.
They did not agree to bring down the price.
He had to reduce the price of his wares.
The yen is expected to lose value against the dollar.
The stock price index was off 200 points yesterday.
The Nikkei Stock Average lost nearly 200 points to close yesterday at 18,000.
The government ordered that the price of soap be reduced by two pence.
That's too expensive for me. Can you lower the price a bit?