落

Translingual

Han character

落 (radical 140 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿水竹口 (TEHR), four-corner 4416₄, composition ⿱艹洛)

References

• KangXi: page 1043, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31362
• Dae Jaweon: page 1503, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3255, character 8
• Unihan data for U+843D

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		落

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): luò, là, lào, luō (luo⁴, la⁴, lao⁴, luo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˋ, ㄌㄚˋ, ㄌㄠˋ, ㄌㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lok⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): lau/lo̍k
• Min Nan (POJ): lak / làu / la̍uh / lo̍h / lo̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: luò
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˋ
    • Wade-Giles: luo⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luoh
    • IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: là
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄚˋ
    • Wade-Giles: la⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lah
    • IPA ^(key): /la̠⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lào
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˋ
    • Wade-Giles: lao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: law
    • IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: luō
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛ
    • Wade-Giles: luo¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lhuo
    • IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lok⁶
    • Yale: lohk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lok⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /lɔːk̚²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lau/lo̍k
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /la̯u⁵⁵/, /lok̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lak / làu / la̍uh / lo̍h / lo̍k
    • Tâi-lô: lak / làu / la̍uh / lo̍h / lo̍k
    • IPA (Taipei): /lak̚³²/, /laʊ¹¹/, /laʊʔ⁴/, /lɔʔ⁴/, /lɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lak̚³²/, /laʊ²¹/, /laʊʔ¹²¹/, /lɔʔ¹²¹/, /lɔk̚¹²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (落, reconstructed)
Character (落), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 鐸 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 盧各切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/lɑk̚/	/lɑk̚/	/lɑk̚/	/lɑk̚/	/lak̚/	/lɑk̚/	/lɑk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (落, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
落								luò								‹ lak ›								/*kə.rˤak/								fall (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
落					3880					各					鐸					0					落					/*ɡ·raːɡ/

Definitions

落

1. to fall, to drop
2. net income, surplus
3. (Cantonese) to exit a vehicle; to disembark (equivalent to Mandarin 下)

   落船  ―  luòchuán  ―  to disembark from a boat

   落車 / 落车  ―  luòchē  ―  to exit a car

Compounds

• 落花生 (luòhuāshēng)
• 落葵 (luòkuí)
• 落下 (luòxià)

See also

• 掉 (diào)

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Japanese

Kanji

落

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to fall
2. to leave behind
3. to drop
4. to come down

Readings

• On: らく (raku)
• Kun: おちる (ochiru), おとす (otosu), さと (sato)

Compounds

• 落語 (らくご, rakugo) Japanese comic storytelling
• 落伍 (らくご, rakugo) outcast, derelict
• 落城 (らくじょう, rakujō) castle falldown by attacking
• 落雪 (らくせつ, rakusetsu) snow-fell falling (to the ground from a roof or a cliff)
• 落葉 (らくよう, rakuyō) leaves falling (mostly in Autumn)

• 落下 (らっか, rakka) falling
• 部落民 (ぶらくみん, burakumin)
• 駄洒落 (だじゃれ, dajare)
• 駄酒落 (だじゃれ, dajare)

See also

• 落ちる

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Korean

Hanja

落 (rak>nak) (hangeul 락>낙, revised rak>nak, McCune-Reischauer rak>nak, Yale lak>nak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

落 (lạc, lác, lát, nhác, rác, rạc, xạc)

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