When is 下 alone read げ outside of a handful of idiomatic usages (if ever)?


Dictionary definition:

> １ 程度・価値・等級・序列などが低いこと。標準より劣っていること。下等。した。「中の下の成績」⇔上 (じょう) 。
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> ２ 書物や文の章段などで、二つまたは三つに分けたものの最後のもの。「下の巻」⇔上 (じょう) 。

**Edit** :  
I think **巻** is not read **かん** , but **まき**. Sometimes, a word alone
requires **訓読み** , sometimes **音読み** , because reasons. Please see the comment
section.

There's already [a
question](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/27985/japanese-
novels-%E4%B8%8A-%E4%B8%8B "下") here about how to read **下** when it is used
for book volumes, whose reading corresponds to the second definition above.

There's also 下{げ}の下{げ}, which I think is literally "the lowest of the low"
(cf. Trainspotting). Definition 1.

Is there any other occasion where one simply has to read it as **げ**? Can I
use it as some sort of adjective, e.g. **下の奴だ** , like the example in
definition 1?

Sorry for yet another newbie question, but お教えください！

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TIL: Just realized that **中の下** is read **ちゅうのげ** , even when **中** seems to
be screaming for **訓読み** instead. Lovely.

