Entry
  1. Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verb

    to oust; to dethrone; to displace (from a position of power)

    彼は若い人のグループにその職から追い落とされた。
    He was edged out of office by a group of younger men.
  2. to drive down (e.g. into a valley); to chase down

  3. to capture (a castle); to seize (by driving out the garrison)

  4. to drive away (e.g. from the capital); to exile

    Archaic

  5. to snatch; to wrest; to waylay

    Archaic

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

chase, drive away, follow, pursue, meanwhile

Kun
お.う
On
ツイ
Strokes
9
Taught
Grade 3
JLPT
N3
Frequency
411 of 2500
Radical
walk

Built from

Used in names as

おい

Dictionary and index codes (31)
CodeReference
3-3-6SKIP code
2q6.4The Kanji Dictionary
3730.7Four corner code
877deroo
8ffdUnicode hex code
1-36-41JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4686Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6042New Nelson (John Haig)
3096New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3840Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1971Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2667Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1268Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1359Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
398A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
993Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
746Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
38836PMorohashi
350A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1174Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1232Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
280sakade
953Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
370henshall3
339Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
966Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
688Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1276Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhui1Pinyin reading
chu, toeKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

fall, drop, come down, village, hamlet

Kun
お.ちるお.ちお.とす
On
ラク
Strokes
12
Taught
Grade 3
JLPT
N3
Frequency
420 of 2500
Radical
grass

Built from

Used in names as

おち

Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
2-3-9SKIP code
3k9.13The Kanji Dictionary
4416.4Four corner code
1977deroo
843dUnicode hex code
1-45-78JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4003Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5130New Nelson (John Haig)
2318New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2907Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1494Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2019Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
299Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
320Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
393A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1733Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
557Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
31362PMorohashi
408A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
839Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
858Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
330sakade
869Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
431henshall3
414Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
327crowley
280Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
664Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
305Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
luo4, la4, lao4Pinyin reading
ragKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)