luò, là, lào
fall
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 洛 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
luò
fall, drop; net income, surplus; to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out; to lower; to decline or sink; to fall onto; to rest with; to get or receive; to write down; whereabouts; settlement
là
to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind
lào
colloquial reading for 落[luò] in certain compounds
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kə.rˤak | lak | luò | fall (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 58.7218% of movies
637th most common character in movies
496th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+843D |
Shuowen | “落，凡艸曰零，木曰落。从艸，洛聲。” |
Sources
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