subordinate person

something handed down (usu. an order)

Your Majesty

underground ②world of the dead ③underground (activities, movement, etc.)

your Excellency

not exceeding ②below (e.g. standard) ③the below-mentioned

your Highness

the whole world ②the whole country ③peerless ④shogun (Edo period)

fall

corridor

descent ②passing down (of an order, decree, etc.)

fall

rejection

followers

underground train

under the control (of)

last place ②least significant (bit)

cellar

retainer

inferior

below ②inferiority ③trade-in ④preliminary

humble position ②underarm grip on opponent's belt

subordinate

underwear

socks

top and bottom ②upside-down

younger

right under

underling ②petty (work, official, etc.)

subordinate

preliminary inspection ②preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes) ③siding (on a house)

desk pad ②being pinned under ③model

first name

secret intention ②kanji "heart" radical at bottom

upper lip ②mouth

lower rank

preliminary arrangements

low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.) ②Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)

lower floor

under the floor

to descend ②to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.) ③to pass (of time) ④to surrender

to make a decision ②to give a judgment ③to do in one go

to look down (on)

down-train ②down-slope ③downbound (esp. away from Tokyo) ④downstream

downhill ②decline

going up and down

evacuation

going downstream (in a boat)

to swallow

descending staircase

retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation ②command (from superior to inferior, government to private sector, etc.) ③descent from heaven

down-train

to descend from heaven

deworming medicine

laxative ②loose bowels

down line

laxative

diarrhea

to write from top to bottom ②to write out (at a stretch) ③to rewrite classical Chinese in Japanese word order

to read (a text) from start to finish ②to transliterate classical Chinese into Japanese

to come down ②to hang ③to move back ④to deteriorate

to hang ②to lower ③to demote ④to clear (plates)

to withdraw ②to back down

to hang down (from) ②to be within one's reach ③to be completely reliant on

hand-me-down ②food offering to the gods ③trip from Kyoto to the provinces

to be degraded

to hang

lowering ②depreciation ③punch line (of a rakugo story) ④sword strap

fall ②string apron ③a little after ...

cancelation ②asking to be excused

early afternoon

to hang on to ②to hound ③to grab the front of the opponent's mawashi, place one's head against their chest, and lower one's hips

to look down over

demotion

to dig down ②to dig into (a matter)

to withdraw

price reduction

to withdraw a request

raising and lowering ②fluctuation (of prices, interest rates, etc.) ③praising and belittling ④setting out (meals, etc.) and clearing away

(short-term) leave allowed a servant

down

conjugation (inflection, declension) of ichidan verbs ending in "eru"

the lower classes

dirty joke ②indecent topic

leeward

last part of a poem or Bible verse

conjugation (inflection, declension) of ichidan verbs ending in "eru"

downstream

last part of a poem or Bible verse

second half of the (fiscal) year

lower classes

villa

sitz bath ②lower pool (e.g. in an onsen)

conjugation (inflection, declension) of nidan verbs (resulting in a stem of either "e" or "u" for every conjugation)

care for patients with bedpans, urinary bottles, etc.

(in Japan) 5th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F sharp)

variation of uta-garuta played in Hokkaido

second half of the year

to talk about indecent things

lower seat

to take down ②to drop off (a passenger) ③to withdraw (money) ④to use for the first time

to jump down

to overlook ②to despise

to go down and stand ②to alight

to stroke down

low hit (e.g. in baseball or golf) ②downhill

to write (a play, book, filmscript, etc.)

to haul down

wind blowing snow down a mountain ②removing snow from the roof of a house

raising and lowering

painting something on commission

to denounce

going up and down

dropping ②grated vegetables, fruit, etc. ③grater

an abortive

to run down (stairs, etc.)

to sit down

brand new (clothes)

to unload

to cut downward

kneeling down on the ground

vulgar

manservant

low-ranking ninja

leaving school (at the end of the day)

geta ②turn (in set-type proofing)

juniors dominating seniors

lower tier ②low position (of a sword in kendo, etc.)

shoe rack (in an entrance)

base

descending a mountain

sewer

offender

the world ②this world (as opposed to heaven)

drainage ②sewage

worn-out rice land

depreciation

servant

laxative

pecking order

under a tree

it is darkest under the lamp post

under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.) ②under (a flag, the sun, etc.) ③(someone's) side

under the guidance of

followers take after their leaders

fools use people to pick up things lying at their own feet

equality before the law

to be no match for

to bring to light

inarticulate

no good at cooking

loving something but being very bad at it

putting a deliberately bad interpretation (on a person's actions)

grated radish

to be churlish

mean feelings

woman of low rank

poor talker

utterly lacking (in ability)

poor listener

bad at socializing

Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895)

it's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one

it's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one

poor speakers make long speeches

even the unskilled can succeed by a fluke given enough tries

even the unskilled can succeed by a fluke given enough tries

hindsight is 20-20 (even for a fool)

bad at romance