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落

落 (fall, drop, come down)

  • JLPT N3
  • 12 strokes
  • Grade 3
  • Radical 艸
  • #420 most frequent

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Readings

On'yomi 音読み
ラク
Kun'yomi 訓読み
お.ちるお.ちお.とす

Example words & Vocabulary

墜落ついらく
falling, crashing
落ちるおちる
(1) to fall down; to drop; to fall (e.g. rain); to sink (e.g. sun or moon); to fall onto (e.g. light or one's gaze); to be used in a certain place (e.g. money) (2) to be omitted; to be missing (3) to decrease; to sink (4) to fail (e.g. exam or class); to lose (contest, election, etc.) (5) to crash; to degenerate; to degrade; to fall behind (6) to become indecent (of a conversation) (7) to be ruined; to go under (8) to fade; to come out (e.g. a stain); to come off (e.g. makeup); to be removed (e.g. illness, possessing spirit, name on a list) (9) to fall (into someone's hands); to become someone's possession (10) to fall (into a trap); to fall (for a trick) (11) to give in; to give up; to confess; to flee (12) to fall; to be defeated; to surrender (13) to come to (in the end); to end in (14) to fall (in love, asleep, etc.) (15) to swoon (judo) (16) to consent; to understand (17) to crash; to freeze (18) (of animals) to die (19) to move to the depths
落ち込むおちこむ
to fall into, to feel down (sad)
落ち着きおちつき
calm, composure
落下らっか
fall, drop, come down
落とすおとす
(1) to drop; to lose; to let fall; to shed (light); to cast (one's gaze); to pour in (liquid); to leave behind (2) to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose; to spend money at a certain place; to omit; to leave out; to secretly let escape (3) to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to fail (a course); to defeat (in an election) (4) to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice); to lessen (e.g. production or body weight); to worsen (quality); to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity); to speak badly of; to make light of; to fall into straitened circumstances (5) to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin); to make one's own; to have one's bid accepted; to force surrender; to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle); to forcefully convince; to press for a confession; to deal with (6) to download; to copy from a computer to another medium (7) to make someone swoon (judo) (8) to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line) (9) to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting)
落ち葉おちば
fallen leaves, leaf litter, defoliation, shedding leaves
転落てんらく
fall, degradation, slump
見落とすみおとす
to overlook, to fail to notice
洒落しゃれ
joke,pun,witticism
没落ぼつらく
ruin, fall, collapse
落第らくだい
failure,dropping out of a class

Example sentences 3

彼かれは川かわに落おちた。

He fell into the river.

私わたしは試験しけんに落おちた。

I failed the exam.

そのコップを落おとすな。

Don't drop that glass.

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