The Chinese word for to fall is
落

luò

Chinese Definition

fall
1. 名词. 跤
2. 动词. 摔

Translations for fall and their definitions

落下
1. v. to fall down; to drop

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.

掉
1. to drop; to fall
硬币掉在了地上。 - The coin dropped on the ground.
2. to lose; to part
掉色 - to lose color
掉髮 - to lose hair
3. to shake; to wag; to swing
尾大不掉 - "too fat a tail to wag"; to be hampered by one's own powerful subordinates
4. to turn; to move
掉轉 - to turn around
掉頭 - to make a U-turn
5. (dialectal, intransitive) to be missing; to be lost
我錢包掉了 - I lost my wallet.
6. (Cantonese, Teochew) to throw; to toss
掉西瓜落海 - to throw a watermelon into the ocean (superstition in Hong Kong that it will aid in the recovery of people lost at sea)
7. (Cantonese, Teochew) to toss out; to dispose of; to discard
掉咗好多唔應該掉嘅嘢 - threw away a lot of things that one shouldn't have
8. (Used along with a verb to indicate completion, usually together with 了; or to indicate imperative mood.)
他戒-掉-了煙 - he quit smoking
把燈關-掉 - turn off the lights
家裡的電飯鍋壞-掉-了。 - Our rice cooker has broken.
9. (Mainland China Hokkien) to shake; to shiver

降
1. to fall; to drop; to descend; to come down
降落 - to fall; to land
2. (honorific) to visit; to honor with one's presence
3. to bestow; to confer
4. to reduce; to decrease; to lower
降價 - to reduce the price
5. (music) flat (♭)
降Aēi大調 - A-flat major
6. to be born
7. (Hakka) to give birth
8. to surrender; to capitulate; to give in
投降xiáng - to surrender
9. to subdue; to vanquish

墮落
1. v. to degenerate; to sink low
2. v. (archaic) to fall; to drop; to come off
3. usage. Not to be confused with 墜落.

成為
1. v. to become; to turn into; to change into
成chéng為wéi 一個更好的自己 - to become a better person; to become a better version of oneself
要想外出度假jià 時，寵物會成為wéi 牽累。 - Pets can be a burden when you want to go away on holiday.
從今天起他就成為wéi 總經理了。 - He became the general manager from today on.
高校人才流動已經成為wéi 越來越常見的現象。 - Talent mobility in universities has become an increasingly common phenomenon.

下降
1. v. (literally) to drop; to fall; to descend
2. v. (figuratively) to decline; to go down; to decrease
3. v. (archaic, of a princess) to get married