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
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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