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

• 落第 to fail an exam
• 院落 court; courtyard
• 天要落雨，娘要嫁人 the rain will fall, the womenfolk will marry; the natural order of things
• 堕落(墮落) to degenerate; to become depraved ; to abort a fetus ; to drop; to fall
• 落单(落單) to be on one's own; to be left alone; to be left out
• 落叶(落葉) deciduous ; to lose leaves
• 干净利落(乾淨利落) squeaky clean; neat and tidy; efficient
• 利落 agile; nimble; all settled; in order
• 树高千丈，叶落归根(樹高千丈，葉落歸根) a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots; everything has its ancestral home
• 数落(數落) to enumerate somebody's shortcomings; to criticize; to scold; to talk on and on
• 部落 a tribe
• 水落石出 as the water recedes, the rocks appear; the truth comes to light
• 错落有致(錯落有致) irregular arrangement with charming effect
• 参差错落(參差錯落) uneven and jumbled; irregular and disorderly; in a tangled mess
• 下落 whereabouts
• 扑落(撲落) to fall; to drop ; socket
• 落叶剂(落葉劑) defoliant
• 败落寺院(敗落寺院) a dilapidated monastery
• 叶落归根(葉落歸根) a falling leaf returns to the roots; everything has its ancestral home
• 挤落(擠落) to push aside
• 落成 to be completed; to complete a construction project
• 殒落(殞落) to decrease; to decay
• 落叶归根(落葉歸根) a falling leaf returns to the roots; fig. all things go back to their source eventually; in old age, an expatriate returns home
• 头白齿落(頭白齒落) hair turns grey and teeth fall out
• 太阳永不落(太陽永不落) (on which) the sun never sets
• 奚落 to tease; to ridicule ; to snub
• 失魂落魄 dazed; beside oneself
• 击落(擊落) to shoot down (a plane)
• 磊落 big and stout; big-hearted; open and honest; continuous; repeated
• 崩落 a precipitous slope ; to ruin
• 名落孙山(名落孫山) to rank after Sun Shan; to rank last
• 落入法网(落入法網) to fall into the net of justice; finally arrested
• 落落 natural [in manner]; unrestrained; frank ; aloof ; indifferent; unfriendly ; impoverished; in decline
• 落后(落後) to fall behind; to lag; to be backwards ; to neglect ; located behind somebody else ; later
• 抖落 to shake out
• 凋落 to wither (and drop off); to wilt; to pass away
• 落色 to fade; to discolor; also pr.
• 衰落 to fall; to drop; to decline; to deteriorate
• 村落 a village
• 垂直起落飞机(垂直起落飛機) vertical takeoff and landing aircraft
• 流落他乡(流落他鄉) to wander far from home
• 肥水不落外人田 do not let fertile water pass to other people's fields
• 落座 to sit down; to take a seat
• 落潮 (of a tide) to ebb or go out
• 日落斋(日落齋) fasting until sunset
• 经济落后(經濟落後) economically backward
• 丢三落四(丟三落四) forgetful; empty-headed
• 落荒而逃 to flee in defeat; to bolt

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Truncated for common words

• 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
• 卷九十八　列傳第八十六:　蠕蠕 匈奴宇文莫槐 徒何段就六眷 高車 Volume 98 Biographies 86: Rouran, Yuwen Mohuai Xiongnu, Duanliu Liujuan, Gaoche History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — 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
• 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
• 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
• 落四 (落四) 彊梧大荒落四年 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《歷書》 Calendars — count: 4
• 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
• 殂落 (殂落) 帝乃殂落 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 舜典 Yu Shu - Canon of Shun — count: 3
• 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