下  xià OC: ɢraas MC: ɦɣɛ 47 AttributionsWD

Xià 下 (ant. shàng 上 "ascend") sometimes refers colourlessly to something moving downwards.

Syntactic words
• vifigurativego down (figuratively)1 Attribution
• viprocessgo down; move down; flow downwards7 Attributions
• vt(oN)go down, get down (from a contextually determinate place); dismount from a carriage16 Attributions
• vt(oN.)-Vgo down to the contextually determinate place to V1 Attribution
• vtoNdescend from12 Attributions
• vtoNcausativelet somebody or something descend, cause something to come down; cause someone to dismount7 Attributions
• vtoNN=aimdescend to; descend intoCH3 Attributions

降  jiàng OC: kruums MC: kɣɔŋ 29 AttributionsWD

The current word for descending is jiàng 降 (ant. shēng 升 "ascend", dēng 登 "ascend").

Word relations
• Ant: 登/ASCEND Dēng 登 refer to one entering a vehicle or moving onto a higher surface of any kind, typically (but not always) in a dignified manner. [ELEVATED!]; [[CURRENT]]
• Ant: 上/ASCEND Shàng 上 (ant. xià 下 "descend"), on the basis of the general meaning "above", comes to refer to the moving to the position on top of or above something else. [GENERAL]; [[CURRENT]], [[DERIVED]] 1 Attribution
• Ant: 騰/FLY Téng 騰 refers to the soaring high up into the sky, typically of big and impressive creatures like birds and dragons. 1 Attribution
• Ant: 陟/ASCEND Zhì 陟 "poetic: scale a mountain" (ant. jiàng 降"descend") are rare archaising words with highly restricted usage. [ARCHAIC], [SPECIFIC]; [[RARE]]
• Assoc: 集/SIT Jí 集 refers to birds settling in a certain place, often but not always in a flock.

Syntactic words
• vadNdescending0 Attributions
• viactdescend, go down8 Attributions
• viprocessgo down3 Attributions
• vt+prep+Ndescend on, alight on (a tree etc)3 Attributions
• vt+prep+Nfigurativedescend from> be issued from, issue from a higher position2 Attributions
• vtoNcausativecause to descend1 Attribution
• vtoNcausativecause to go down> lower (one's aspirations etc)2 Attributions
• vtoNextentdescend>decline by the extent N1 Attribution
• vtoNN=extentdescend (e. g. by such and such a number of steps2 Attributions
• vtoNobject=goaldescend to (a place)3 Attributions
• vtoNobject=sourceget down from, go down from4 Attributions

下降  xià jiàng OC: ɢraaʔ kruums MC: ɦɣɛ kɣɔŋ 2 AttributionsWD

Syntactic words
• VPiprocessdescend (from Heaven)2 Attributions

下至  xià zhì OC: ɢraas kljiɡs MC: ɦɣɛ tɕi 1 AttributionWD

Syntactic words
• VPt0oN1.postN2figurativedescend and reach > down until, reaching to, until1 Attribution

墮  duò MC: dwaX OC: ɡ-loolʔCH 1 AttributionWD

Syntactic words
• vtoNdescend from NCH1 Attribution

下抵  xià dǐ MC: haeX tejX OC: ɢraaʔ tiilʔCH 1 AttributionWD

Syntactic words
• VPtoNdescend fromCH1 Attribution

頹  dù 1 AttributionWD

Syntactic words
• vifigurativefallingCH1 Attribution

下之  xià zhī MC: haeH tsyi OC: ɢraas kljɯCH 1 AttributionWD

Syntactic words
• VPtoNdescend toCH1 Attribution

穨  tuí OC: ɡ-luul MC: duo̝i 0 AttributionsWD

Syntactic words
• vichangego down; decend; decline (the sun)0 Attributions

下向  xià xiàng OC: ɢraaʔ qhaŋs MC: ɦɣɛ hi̯ɐŋ 0 AttributionsWD

Syntactic words
• VPtoNresultativemove down so as to approach> move down towards0 Attributions