Memory phrase for the character: 降

降

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fall (rain), descend

KŌ
oriru/rosu, furu

Left: hill 阝, right: upturned foot, sitting cross-legged 夂 (But here perhaps: image of dripping rain?), variant of stop 止

From the hill comes the falling rain and will stop at the bottom because it has fallen down.

阝	hill	The radical kozato shows a hill. 阝 and is always on the left side of a kanji. (Please note that rather similar radical oozato ⻏ is always on the right sight of the kanji and means village.)
夂	crossed legs	This radical is either understood as sitting with crossed legs or an upturned foot.
舛	variation of foots	The radical maiashi* shows two variants of foot 夕/止 with the meaning "standing opposed"*

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降雪	こうせつ	snowfall, snow
下降	かこう	downward, descent, fall, drop, subsidence
以降	いこう	on and after, hereafter, thereafter
降りる	おりる	to alight (e.g. from bus), to get off, to descend (e.g. a mountain)
降る	ふる	to precipitate, to fall (e.g. rain)
降ろす	おろす	to take down, to launch, to drop, to lower, to let (a person) off, to unload, to discharge
降伏	こうふく	capitulation, surrender, submission
降水	こうすい	rainfall, precipitation

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