落 luò

1. luò verb to fall; to drop
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 掉下 (CC-CEDICT '落'; Guoyu '落' v 2; Kroll 2015 '落' 1, p. 291; Unihan '落'; XHZD '落' 1, p. 478)
2. luò verb to degenerate; to decline
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 衰败 (CC-CEDICT '落'; Guoyu '落' v 6; Kroll 2015 '落' 2, p. 291; XHZD '落' 2, p. 478)
3. luò verb to lag; to suffer difficulty
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 掉在后面 (CC-CEDICT '落'; Guoyu '落' v 5; Kroll 2015 '落' 2b, p. 291; XHZD '落' 3, p. 478)
4. luò verb to settle; to stay
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 停留 (CC-CEDICT '落'; Guoyu '落' v 7; Kroll 2015 '落' 5, p. 291; XHZD '落' 4, p. 478)
5. luò noun a settlement
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For example, 村落 village (CC-CEDICT '落'; Guoyu '落' n 1; Kroll 2015 '落' 6, p. 291; XHZD '落' 5, p. 478)
6. luò verb to belong to; to be subordinate to
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 归属 (CC-CEDICT '落'; Guoyu '落' v 10; XHZD '落' 6, p. 478)
7. luò verb to inaugurate [after completing construction]
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '落' 8, p. 291; XHZD '落' 7, p. 478)
8. luò verb to write down
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (XHZD '落' 8, p. 478)
9. là verb to be missing; to forget
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 遗漏 (Guoyu '落' là v 1; XHZD '落' là, p. 410)
10. lào verb to fall
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Alternate pronounciation (Guoyu '落' lào; XHZD '落' lào, p. 421)
11. luò verb [of water] to trickle; to drip
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '落' 3, p. 291)
12. luò verb to expel
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 除去 (Guoyu '落' v 4; Kroll 2015 '落' 7, p. 291)
13. luò noun a bamboo or wicker fence
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '落' 9, p. 291)
14. luò verb to unwind a thread
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '落' 10, p. 291)
15. luò verb to sink into
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 陷入 (CC-CEDICT '落'; Guoyu '落' v 3)
16. luò adjective sparse; infrequent
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 稀疏 (Guoyu '落' adj 3)
17. luò adjective clever
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 伶俐 (Guoyu '落' adj 4)
18. luò noun whereabouts
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 下落 (CC-CEDICT '落'; Guoyu '落' n 2; XHZD '落' 5, p. 478)
19. luò measure word stack
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: A classifier for stacks of books, bowls, etc (Guoyu '落' n 3)
20. luò proper noun Luo
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Given name 名字
    Notes: (Guoyu '落' n 4)
21. luò noun net income
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (Unihan '落')
22. luò noun surplus
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (Unihan '落')

Contained in

• 避坑落井 to dodge a pit only to fall into a well; out of the frying pan into the fire
• 坠落(墜落) to fall; to descend ; to decline; to decay
• 失魂落魄 dazed; beside oneself
• 落得 ending up as; leading to; resulting in; in total
• 雕落 to wither (and drop off); to wilt; to pass away
• 丧魂落魄(喪魂落魄) scared out of one's wits; in a panic
• 头白齿落(頭白齒落) hair turns grey and teeth fall out
• 徯落 to tease; to ridicule ; to snub
• 殒落(殞落) to decrease; to decay
• 太阳永不落(太陽永不落) (on which) the sun never sets
• 瓜熟蒂落 when a mellon is ripe it falls
• 落第 to fail an exam
• 落入 to fall into
• 崩落 a precipitous slope ; to ruin
• 落地鼓 floor tom (drum kit component)
• 水落石出 as the water recedes, the rocks appear; the truth comes to light
• 落户(落戶) to settle; to set up home
• 驳落(駁落) to peel off; mottled; to fail an exam; to be demoted
• 落照 sunset
• 秋风扫落叶(秋風掃落葉) as the autumn gale sweeps away the fallen leaves; to drive out the old and make a clean sweep
• 沉落 to sink; to fall
• 降落地点(降落地點) landing site
• 落子 lianhualuo
• 屯落 village
• 黑暗的角落 a dark corner
• 刀不磨要生锈，人不学要落后(刀不磨要生銹，人不學要落後) a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study
• 落水管 drainpipe; water spout
• 段落 phase; time interval ; a paragraph
• 起落架 undercarriage
• 部落格 blog
• 冷落 to treat somebody coldly; to snub; to cold shoulder ; desolate; unfrequented
• 坐落 to be situated; to be located
• 败落(敗落) to decline ; to wilt [of plants] ; run-down
• 磊落 big and stout; big-hearted; open and honest; continuous; repeated
• 观落阴(觀落陰) a ritual whereby the living soul is brought to the nether world for a spiritual journey
• 墟落 a village ; a burial mound
• 落娠 to have an abortion
• 俐落 agile; nimble; all settled; in order
• 数落(數落) to enumerate somebody's shortcomings; to criticize; to scold; to talk on and on
• 疏落 sparse; scattered
• 落水狗上岸 like a dog who fell in the river and climbs out—shaking all over
• 落选(落選) to lose an election
• 降落跑道 runway
• 门庭冷落，门堪罗雀(門庭冷落，門堪羅雀) The courtyard is deserted, you can net sparrows at the door; completely deserted
• 大雨落幽燕 on the northern land a heavy rain is pouring
• 落后国家(落後國家) an undeveloped nation; a backwards country
• 月落斋(月落齋) fasting on the final day of the month
• 安家落户(安家落戶) to make one's home in a place; to settle
• 洒落(灑落) to drip
• 落埋怨 to get blamed

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落座

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• 卷三十 魏書三十 烏丸鮮卑東夷傳 Volume 30: Book of Wei 30 - Biographies of the Wuhuan, Xianbei, and Dongyi Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 30
• 卷六十　　志第十二: 　地理三 Volume 60 Treatises 13: Geography 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 21
• 卷六十一　志第十三: 　地理四 Volume 61 Treatises 14: Geography 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 20
• 卷四十三下　　　志第三十三下　地理七下 Volume 43b Treatises 38: Gepgraphy 7b New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 17
• 卷五 Scroll 5 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 17
• 卷四百九十六 列傳第二百五十五 蠻夷四 西南諸夷 黎州諸蠻 敍州三路蠻 威茂渝州蠻 黔涪施高徼外諸蠻 瀘州蠻 Volume 496 Biographies 255: Man People 4 - All Peoples from the Southwest, All Man Peoples from Lizhou, Man Peoples from Xuzhou and Sanlu, Man Peoples from Weimao and Yuzhou, Man Peoples from Qianfu Shigao and Outer Areas, Man People from Luzhou History of Song 宋史 — count: 17
• 卷六 Scroll 6 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 16
• 卷八十七 西羌傳 Volume 87: Treatise on the Western Qiang Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 16
• 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 16
• 卷103 蠕蠕 匈奴宇文莫槐 徒何段就六眷 高車 Volume 103: Rouran, Yuwen Mohuai, Duanliu Liujuan, Gaoche Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 14

Collocations

• 荒落 (荒落) 歲名曰大荒落 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷三　天文訓 Chapter 3: Celestial Phenomena — count: 9
• 落门 (落門) 中郎將來歙等大破隗純於落門 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷一下 光武帝紀 Volume 1b: Annals of Emperor Guangwu — count: 7
• 北落 (北落) 旁有一大星為北落 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《天官書》 Astronomy — count: 6
• 未落 (未落) 桑之未落 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧氓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mang — count: 4
• 叶落 (葉落) 見一葉落 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十六　說山訓 Chapter 16: A Mountain of Persuasion — count: 4
• 留落 (留落) 然而諸宿將常坐留落不遇 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《衛將軍驃騎列傳》 Biography of Cavalry General Wei — count: 4
• 落四 (落四) 彊梧大荒落四年 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《歷書》 Calendars — count: 4
• 庐落 (廬落) 掩擊迷唐廬落大豪 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十六 鄧寇列傳 Volume 16: Biographies of Deng, Kou — count: 3
• 落山 (落山) 風落山 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3
• 访落 (訪落) 訪落 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 周頌‧閔予小子之什‧訪落 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Min Yu Xiao Zi - Fang Luo — count: 3