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. |
| 成为 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 成為 |
| 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 |
| 堕落 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 墮落 |
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