落落

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Chinese

to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind
trad. (落落)
simp. #(落落)

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter lak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/lɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/lɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lak̚/
Li
Rong
/lɑk̚/
Wang
Li
/lɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
luò
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lok6

Adjective

落落

  1. (literary, ideophonic) tall; lofty
  2. (literary, ideophonic) few; sporadic; scattered
  3. (ideophonic) open and upright; natural and poised
  4. (ideophonic) aloof; stand-offish
Derived terms

Pronunciation 2


Adjective

落落

  1. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) loose; about to fall off
Descendants
  • Tagalog: lawlaw

Pronunciation 3


Verb

落落

  1. (Hokkien) to fall; to fall off
  2. (Hokkien) to lose; to misplace (due to forgetting)
Synonyms
  • (to fall off): 掉下 (diàoxià)