落

Translingual

Han character

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

1. fall, drop
2. net income, surplus

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

落 (Yale lok6)

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Japanese

Kanji

落 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to fall
2. to leave behind

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, rauyō) 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, “pun”) 駄酒落 (だじゃれ, dajare, “pun”)

See also

• 落ちる

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Hanzi

落 (pinyin luò (luo4), Wade-Giles lo⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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