Kanji 落

音読おんよみ: ラク

訓読くんよみ:ちる・おとす

画数かくすう: 12

部首ぶしゅ: くさかんむり(艹)

Meaning

Fall / Drop / Fail / Decline

Conjugation
Tap for 落ちる (to fall) Tap for 落とす (to drop)
  • ちる — to fall, to drop
  • とす — to drop, to lose
  • 落下らっか — fall, dropping
  • 落語らくご — traditional comic storytelling
  • 落第らくだい — failing (an exam)
  • 転落てんらく — fall, tumble, decline
More examples - tap to expand
  • 失落しつらく — frustration, loss
  • 下落げらく — depreciation, fall in value
  • 没落ぼつらく — ruin, downfall
  • 落差らくさ — difference in level / gap
Compound Verbs - tap to expand
  • く — to calm down; to settle
  • む — to feel depressed; to sink emotionally
  • う — to meet up; to come together
  • びる — to escape; to survive
  • とす — to overlook; to miss
  • とす — to push down; to shove off
  • としむ — to trap; to plunge into

The top radical 艹 (くさかんむり) hints at leaves or plants. The phonetic part 洛 (らく) gives the reading. Together, the character symbolizes leaves or things falling. Over time, it also came to mean “decline” or “fail.”

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