投下

Chinese

to throw; to send
under; next; lower
under; next; lower; below; underneath; down(wards); to go down; latter
 
simp. and trad.
(投下)

Pronunciation


Verb

投下

  1. to drop (from a height)
    投下原子彈投下原子弹  ―  tóuxià yuánzǐdàn  ―  to drop an atomic bomb

Japanese

Kanji in this term
とう
Grade: 3

Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ーか [tòóká] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [to̞ːka̠]

Noun

(とう)() • (tōka

  1. dropping from a height
  2. investment

Verb

(とう)()する • (tōka surutransitive suru (stem (とう)() (tōka shi), past (とう)()した (tōka shita))

  1. to drop from a height
    • 2025 June 5, 宮口治子 [Haruko Miyaguchi], quotee, “第217回国会 参議院 文教科学委員会 第12号 令和7年6月5日 [217th Diet House of Councilors Committee on Education and Science No. 12 June 5, 2025]”, in 国会会議録検索システム [Diet Proceedings Search System]‎[1], 国立国会図書館 [National Diet Library], retrieved 2 September 2025:
      本年は、人類史上初の原子爆弾が広島とそして長崎に投下された被爆八十年の節目でございます。
      Honnen wa, jinrui shijōhatsu no genshi bakudan ga Hiroshima to soshite Nagasaki ni tōka sareta hibaku hachi jū nen no fushime de gozai masu.
      This year marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings, when the first atomic bombs in human history were dropped on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki.
  2. to invest

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN