Character · Places
下
した shitaもと motoてんか tenkaへた heta
below, bottom
Composition
Origin
An indicative sign: a stroke set below a reference line marks what lies underneath.
In the thoughts
- 天下tenkathe whole world
- 下手hetaunskilled
- 城下jōkacastle town
Proverbs carrying this character
- 043 灯台下暗し The base of the lamp stands in darkness.
- 085 縁の下の力持ち The strong one beneath the veranda.
- 103 柳の下にいつも泥鰌はいない There is not always a loach under the willow.
- 126 一葉落ちて天下の秋を知る One leaf falls, and we know autumn is coming to the world.
- 129 下手の横好き Unskilled, but devoted.
- 232 春や昔十五万石の城下かな Spring — long ago, a proud castle town of a hundred fifty thousand koku.
- 298 天は人の上に人を造らず人の下に人を造らず Heaven creates no man above other men, nor any man below.