Kanji1 / 12
落 kanji
fall, drop, come down, village, hamlet
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ラク
Kun readings
おちるおちおとす
Words with 落
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —落胆Populardiscouragement; despondency; dejection; disappointment
- —落雷Popularlightning strike; lightning bolt
- —崩落Popularcollapse; break; cave-in; crash; market decline; market crash
- —落選Popularfailing to be elected; election defeat; losing an election; not being accepted (for a prize, exhibition, etc.); rejection; failing to win a prize
- —当落Popularresult (of an election); success or defeat (in an election); winning or losing (a lottery, raffle, etc.)
- —一段落Popularreaching a stopping place; settling down (before the next stage); getting to a point where one can rest; completing the first stage (of the work); one paragraph
- —落語家Popularrakugo story teller; comic story teller
- —落書きPopularscrawl; scribble; graffiti; doodle
- —滑落sliding down (a slope, mountainside); slipping down
- —及落success or failure (in examinations)
- —群落many communities (villages); cluster of plants
- —欠落lack; absence; omission
- —惨落slump; sudden fall of market price
- —凋落decline; fall; decay; withering
- —奈落Naraka; Hell; Hades; very bottom; the end; worst possible circumstances; trap room (of a theatre); below-stage basement
- —剥落peeling off (e.g. of paint); falling off (e.g. of tiles); exfoliation; desquamation; excoriation
- —落款signature and seal (on calligraphy, paintings, etc.)
- —落伍straggling; falling behind; being left behind; dropping out; falling behind the ranks; falling out of line
- —落首lampoon; satirical poem
- —落成completion (of a building)