Amazing Chinese Characters (353) Descend - 降

 The shell bone script of character Descend is

The left is a cliff or steep hillside, the right is two feet facing down, or up-down character Step

The character means that a person is walking down the hill.

The bronze script of the character is

Similar to the shell bone script.

The big seal script of the character is

Similar to the older scripts.

The small seal script of the character is

The left is similar to old scripts, the right top foot has one very long stroke which is a typical small seal script stroke which is corresponding to the left long vertical stroke, making the whole character symmetric at the price of losing the pictography.

The clerical script of the character is

The left Er Radical is the steep hillside, the right top is not similar to older scripts anymore. 

The song typeface of the character is

降

Its Pinyin is Jiang4.

The character has another meaning: Surrender, which is pronounced Xiang2.