落
fall; drop; come down; village; hamlet
12 strokes. Taught in grade 3. Newspaper frequency rank 420.
Readings
- ラク (on reading): 落選 (らくせん) failing to be elected; 集落 (しゅうらく) settlement
- おちる (kun reading): 落ちる (おちる) to fall; 流れ落ちる (ながれおちる) to run off (fluid)
- おち (kun reading): 落ち着く (おちつく) to calm down; 寝落ち (ねおち) dozing off in the middle of doing something (esp. in an online chat or during an online game)
- おとす (kun reading): 落とす (おとす) to drop; 落とし (おとし) dropping
- Read as a whole word: 洒落る (しゃれる) to dress stylishly; 駄洒落 (だじゃれ) feeble joke; 洒落込む (しゃれこむ) to get dressed up
Components
- 艹
- 洛
- 口 radical mouth
- 夂 radical go; winter top
- ⺡ radical water, left-side form of 水
- ⺾ radical grass, top form of 艸
Words using 落
- 落選 (らくせん) failing to be elected
- 集落 (しゅうらく) settlement
- 落書き (らくがき) scrawl
- 陥落 (かんらく) subsidence
- 落語家 (らくごか) rakugo story teller
- 落ちる (おちる) to fall
- 流れ落ちる (ながれおちる) to run off (fluid)
- 転げ落ちる (ころげおちる) to fall off
- 崩れ落ちる (くずれおちる) to crumble down
- 焼け落ちる (やけおちる) to be burned down
- 落ち着く (おちつく) to calm down
- 寝落ち (ねおち) dozing off in the middle of doing something (esp. in an online chat or during an online game)
- 落ち込む (おちこむ) to feel down
- 落ち (おち) slip
- 鯖落ち (サバおち) server outage (e.g. in an online game)
- 落とす (おとす) to drop
- 落とし (おとし) dropping
- 見落とす (みおとす) to overlook
- 落とし穴 (おとしあな) pitfall
- 攻め落とす (せめおとす) to take by storm (e.g. a castle)
- 洒落る (しゃれる) to dress stylishly
- 駄洒落 (だじゃれ) feeble joke
- 洒落込む (しゃれこむ) to get dressed up
- 洒落本 (しゃれぼん) sharebon
- 洒落 (しゃれ) joke
- 落し物 (おとしもの) lost property
- 鼠落し (ねずみおとし) rattrap
- 落し文 (おとしぶみ) letter dropped in the road
- 落し卵 (おとしたまご) poached egg
- 聞き落し (ききおとし) mishearing
493 words in all.