落 |
1. to fall; to drop | |
落淚 - to shed tears - | |
隕石 為什麼 總是 落 在 隕石坑 裡? - Why do meteors always fall right into craters? (a joke question) | |
2. to go down; to descend | |
日落 - sunset - | |
潮水 落 了。 - The tide is low. | |
鳥兒 落 在 樹枝 上。 - The bird lands on the branch | |
3. (Cantonese, Min Nan) to go down; to descend | |
落 樓梯 - to go down the stairs | |
我 落 一 落 樓下。 - I will go downstairs for a while. | |
4. to lower | |
5. to decline | |
衰落 - to decline; to go downhill - | |
家道中落 - the family fortunes has declined - | |
6. to fall into | |
落水 - to fall into the water - | |
7. to stop | |
落腳 - to stop over; to put up - | |
話音 未 落 - before one has finished speaking | |
8. to leave behind; to write down | |
9. to lag behind; to fall behind | |
落選 - to lose an election - | |
落伍 - to be behind the times - | |
10. place where one stops | |
下落 - whereabouts - | |
段落 - paragraph - | |
11. settlement | |
村落 - village - | |
12. to fall onto | |
大權旁落 - power has fallen into the hands of others | |
這個 任務 落 到 了 我 身上。 - | |
13. to get; to receive | |
落lào不是shi - to get blamed - | |
14. (Cantonese, Min Nan, Wu) to get off (a vehicle) | |
落船 - to disembark from a boat, C-GZ - | |
落車 - to alight; to exit a car, C-GZ - | |
落lo̍h車 - to alight; to exit a car, MN - | |
15. (Cantonese, Min Nan, Wu) to fall down; to rain or snow | |
啲 雨 一 滴 都 未 落 佢 已經 喺度 攞 住 把 遮 行。 - He had already started to carry an umbrella before the rain even began to fall. | |
16. (Cantonese, Min Nan) to add; to put in (to food) | |
落 味精zing1 - to add MSG - | |
落 石屎 - to pour concrete - | |
17. (Cantonese, Hokkien, Teochew) down | |
打 落 地下haa6-2 度 - to hit something and cause it to fall to the ground | |
18. (Min Dong) | |
佢 睇 落 幾 靚仔。 - He seems to be quite handsome. | |
做 落 先 知 原來 咁 難。 - Only after doing it for a while do you realize how difficult it is. | |
肥 到 著 唔 落 條 褲 - too fat to put on the pair of pants | |
19. (attention, zh, also Min Nan, etc.) | |
20. to fall behind | |
21. to leave out | |
22. to leave behind | |
我 把 鑰匙shi 落là 家裡 了。 - I left my key(s) at home. | |
佢 又試 賴 低 個 女neoi5-2 自己 一個 喺 屋企。 - He has once again left his daughter behind at home alone by herself. | |