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落 = 艹 + 洛

落 is a Japanese kanji written with 12 strokes, listed here under the keyword “fall”. It is built from 艹 (mugwort) and 洛 (old kyoto). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 320.

Keyword
fall
RTK frame
320
Strokes
12
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ラク
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
お.ちる, お.ち, お.とす
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
падение
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
落 fall

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 艹 mugwort
  2. 洛 old kyoto

How to find 落 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “mugwort” + “old kyoto”. 落 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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