落

HSK 4#1287 by frequencyradical 艹

luò["v"]

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

là["v"]

to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind

lào

colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds

Examples

叶子落了。

The leaves fell.

我落下了。

I fell.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.