EntryCommonJLPT N4WaniKani 12
  1. Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verb

    to drop; to lose; to let fall; to shed (light); to cast (one's gaze); to pour in (liquid); to leave behind

    彼は花瓶を落とした。
    He dropped a vase.
  2. to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose; to spend money at a certain place; to omit; to leave out; to secretly let escape

  3. to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to fail (a course); to defeat (in an election)

  4. to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice); to lessen (e.g. production or body weight); to worsen (quality); to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity); to speak badly of; to make light of; to fall into straitened circumstances

  5. to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin); to make one's own; to have one's bid accepted; to force surrender; to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle); to forcefully convince; to press for a confession; to deal with

  6. to download; to copy from a computer to another medium

    Computing

  7. to make someone swoon (judo)

    Martial arts

  8. to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line)

  9. to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting)

  10. to win over; to seduce; to conquer (unwillingness)

    Colloquial

Also written 落す【おとす】

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Characters in this word

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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
WaniKani
Level 10

Built from

Used in names as

おち

Dictionary and index codes (33)
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)
10WaniKani level