下
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Prices go 下, people are 下 — one notch below the line
The picture A line drawn, and a hand pointing at the space below it. 下 is the space below the line; 上 is the space above it.
Where the picture shows up in 下
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moving into the space below
값이 하락(下落)했어요.
gap-si ha-ra-kae-sseo-yo
The price dropped.
A line that sat in a high band sliding down one band
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the level below the ground line
가게는 지하(地下) 일 층에 있어요.
ga-ge-neun ji-ha il cheung-e i-sseo-yo
The shop is one floor underground.
A floor whose door appears only after you walk down past the ground line
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pulled downward
요금을 인하(引下)했어요.
yo-geu-meul in-ha-hae-sseo-yo
We lowered the fee.
A hand taking a number written in the high band and rewriting it one band lower
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the person in the band below
이 일은 부하(部下)에게 맡겼어요.
i i-reun bu-ha-e-ge mat-gyeo-sseo-yo
I handed this job to my junior.
Papers on my desk traveling down to a desk one level below and settling there
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everything below that line
열 명 이하(以下)만 들어오세요.
yeol myeong i-ha-man deu-reo-o-se-yo
Only up to ten people may come in.
A line drawn across a row of numbers with everything under it shaded in
All of it in one picture
下 is the hand pointing below a line. When a price slides into that space, it is a fall; the floor you reach by walking down past the ground line is the basement. Pull a number down by hand into the lower space and that is a cut; when work travels to a desk one level below, the person at that desk is your subordinate. Draw the line and shade in everything under it, and you have 'or fewer'.