Hanja Analyzer
落

落 — rak

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
떨어질 락
Romanization
rak
English
fall, drop; net income, surplus
Mandarin
luò
Japanese on'yomi
ラク
Japanese kun'yomi
お.ちる お.ち お.とす
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 3
Newspaper frequency
#420 of 2,500
Strokes
12
Radical
艸 (140, 9 residual)
Unicode
U+843D

Parts that make up 落

  • 艹 풀 초variant of 艸 돋아난 풀잎 둘풀·나물·약초. 글자 위에 얹힌다
  • 洛 물이름 락

How 落 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 落 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 艸, 洛.

Korean example words with 落

  • 낙일落日 Korean gloss: 지는 해
  • 낙가落價 Korean gloss: 값을 깎음
  • 낙망落望 Korean gloss: 희망을 잃음
  • 낙성落城 Korean gloss: 성이 함락됨
  • 발락發落 Korean gloss: 결정하여 끝냄
  • 영락榮落 Korean gloss: 번성함과 쇠퇴함
  • 파락破落 Korean gloss: 파괴되어 몰락함
  • 촌락村落 Korean gloss: 시골의 작은 마을
  • 낙엽落葉 Korean gloss: 말라서 떨어진 나뭇잎
  • 낙선落選 Korean gloss: 심사나 선발에서 떨어짐
  • 낙곡落穀 Korean gloss: 땅에 떨어진 곡물의 낟알
  • 낙사落死 Korean gloss: 높은 곳에서 떨어져 죽음

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 落

  • 下落げらく depreciation; decline; fall
  • 落ち着いたおちついた calm; composed; cool
  • 墜落ついらく fall; crash (of an aircraft)
  • 落ちるおちる to fall; to drop; to come down
  • 落語らくご rakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling; comic story (told by a professional storyteller)
  • 集落しゅうらく settlement; village; community
  • 暴落ぼうらく slump; crash; heavy fall
  • 落札らくさつ successful bid; winning a tender
  • 落ち込むおちこむ to feel down; to feel sad; to be depressed
  • 急落きゅうらく sudden fall; sharp fall; sudden drop
  • 落ちおち slip; omission; upshot
  • 落差らくさ difference in elevation (between two points in a body of water); head; drop (e.g. of a waterfall)

Other hanja read “락”

Other hanja with radical 艸

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