Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

落: fall, drop

Also: come down, village, hamlet

JLPT N312 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

艹 carries the meaning · 洛 gives the sound

12 strokes

Four readings, and the words that use each

ラクraku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 落下するらっかするfall, drop
  • 落馬するらくばするfall from a horse
  • 落選するらくせんするlose an election
  • 墜落するついらくするfall, crash
  • 暴落するぼうらくするcrash (stock market)
  • 堕落するだらくするdecay, be corrupted
  • 落書きらくがきscribble, graffiti
  • 落語らくごrakugo (comic story-telling)
  • 段落だんらくparagraph

おちるochiru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 落ちるおちるfall, get worse [v.i.]

おちochi · kun'yomi

  • 落ち着くおちつくsettle down, keep calm

おとすotosu · kun'yomi

  • 落とすおとすdrop, lose, let fall [v.t.]

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)艸, as 艹 (meaning) + 洛 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 落 (rev. 92297728), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Grass growing on top! Like a green crown upon the earth, this radical sits above kanji related to flowers, herbs, and vegetation.”
More in the 艹 grass story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
艹

Also built on grass (艹)

All 74

Also read ラク

3 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · luò

Same form: 落 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
落 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
落 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin luò most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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