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
- —落体falling body
- —落花falling petals
- —落胤nobleman's illegitimate child
- —落莫desolate; dreary; lonesome
- —落雁rakugan; dry confection of starch (e.g. rice, soy or barley flour) and sugar, mixed and pressed into a pattern; geese alighting
- —落掌receive
- —落陽setting sun
- —落潮low tide; decline
- —落籍lack of registration (in the census register); being dropped from one's family registry; buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom
- —漸落gradual decline
- —栄落flourishing and declining
- —邑落hamlet
- —落綿cotton waste
- —落筆initial brush stroke in calligraphy
- —落慶celebration of the completion of a temple or shrine's construction
- —淪落ruin; depravity; corruption
- —落雪snowslide; small avalanche
- —錯落mixed; mingled
- —落月setting moon; moon setting in the West
- —落車falling from bicycle, motorcycle, etc. while driving (esp. in a race)