落
Meanings · lok6
- (verb) to climb down (stairs)
Meanings · laai6
- to leave behind
- to forget to bring
- to leave out
- to be missing
- to lose
Meanings · laai3
- to leave behind
- to forget to bring
- to leave out
- to be missing
- to lose
Meanings · lok6
- to fall or drop
- (of the sun) to set
- (of a tide) to go out
- to lower
- to decline or sink
- to lag or fall behind
- to fall onto
- to rest with
- to get or receive
- to write down
- whereabouts
- settlement
- to deliver
- to put in
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 落 là CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind
- 落 lào CC-CEDICT · Mandarincolloquial reading for 落 luò in certain compounds
- 落 luò CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out; to lower; to decline or sink; to lag or fall behind; to fall onto; to rest with; …
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: luo4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 49 senses · 4 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
laai3 · laai6 · lok1 · lok6
Cantonese word readings for 落. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- to fall; to drop
- (intransitive) (to go to a lower place) — to go down; to descend; to set
- (intransitive) (to go to a lower place) — to go down; to descend; to set — (Cantonese, Southern Min) to go down; to descend (of a person, animal, etc.)
- (intransitive) (to go to a lower place) — to decline; to sink; to come down
- (intransitive) (to go to a lower place) — to fall onto; to rest with (of responsibility, power, position, etc.)
- (intransitive) (to go to a lower place) — (Cantonese, Southern Min, Wu) to get off; to alight; to exit; to disembark (a vehicle)
- (intransitive) (to go to a lower place) — (Cantonese, Eastern Min, Southern Min, dialectal Wu) to finish; to complete (class or work)
- (intransitive) (to go to a lower place) — (Cantonese) to go to a more lively and bustling area (especially downtown)
- (intransitive) (to go to a lower place) — (Cantonese, Eastern Min, Mainland China Hokkien) to go to somewhere inferior or subordinate
- (intransitive) (to go to a lower place) — (Cantonese, Hokkien, Teochew) down [[[onto]]; to]
- (transitive) (to move something to a lower place) — to lower; to let fall; to let down
- (transitive) (to move something to a lower place) — (literary) to write down (with a pen)
- (transitive) (to move something to a lower place) — (Cantonese, Southern Min) to add; to put in (into food, a mixture, etc.)
- (transitive) (to move something to a lower place) — (Cantonese, Hokkien) to give or issue something to an inferior person
- (transitive) (to move something to a lower place) — (Cantonese) to get into or to have put on something
- (transitive) (to move something to a lower place) — (Cantonese) to abort (a fetus)
- (transitive) (to move something to a lower place) — (Xiamen and Taiwanese Hokkien) to fell; to lop; to cut down; to hew (trees)
- (Cantonese) added after a verb to express a reassessment after doing or experiencing something for a certain period of time
- to stop; to cease
- to lag behind; to fall behind
- to leave behind; to stay behind
- place where one stays; whereabouts
- settlement; place to gather together
- small area; short part
- to get; to receive; to have
- (Eastern Min) Classifier for residences.
- (Hainanese, Leizhou Min, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Singapore and Taiwanese Hokkien, Teochew) to fade (of color)
- (Hokkien) Classifier for a row of houses.
- (Hokkien) to omit; to leave out
- (Hokkien) to disassemble; to dismantle
- (Hokkien) to have diarrhea
- (Hokkien) to leak (of water or gas)
- (Hokkien) to coax out of somebody; to trick somebody into telling (of a secret, information, the truth, etc.)
- (Hokkien) to fall off; to drop off (from somewhere)
- (Hokkien) to lose; to misplace
- (Mainland China Hokkien) to get along well
- (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) loose; about to fall off (often reduplicated)
- (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) Classifier for events, deals, etc..
- (Xiamen Hokkien) to divide into; to split up into
- (Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to unload (cargo, etc.)
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to show off one's skills in speaking (a certain language)
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to gather (one's own men) to help (used to gather a crowd for a fight)
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to shake a container to let something fall out
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien, of wind) to blow
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to space out; to leave distances in between
- a surname
character
- (colloquial) to leave out; to be missing; to omit
- (colloquial) to leave behind; to forget to bring
- (colloquial) to fall behind; to lag behind
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